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On 30 October 2018, Italian politician Giovanni Barbagallo published a video on Facebook that he claimed showed a group of immigrants in revolt and implied that the incident took place in Italy: Barbagallo's post was accompanied by the following description (translated via Google): By the time we came across this footage in January 2019, it had already amassed more than 1.6 million views. Unfortunately, those viewers watched this footage in the wrong context, as Barbagallo's description was inaccurate. This footage was not filmed in Italy or any other European country. This incident actually took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in October 2018 and shows a violent protest related to a land dispute between Stellenbosch Municipality and residents from the nearby Kayamandi. Nearly 30 people were arrested on suspicion of taking part in the destructive protest: According to the South African publication IOL, some residents of Kayamandi built shacks on a vacant piece of land owned by a wine farm. At the time this video was taken, Stellenbosch Municipality was attempting to evict these people from the land: A video news report from Afro World View TV adds a little more context to the situation in Kayamandi:
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