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  • 2021-04-21 (xsd:date)
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  • This video has been taken from an Indian road safety campaigner's film (en)
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  • A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim it shows a group of Indian Muslim motorcyclists brandishing weapons after they were stopped for not wearing helmets. The claim is false: the original video was actually staged by an Indian road safety campaigner for a short film. The video was shared here on Facebook on March 23, 2021. It has been viewed more than 1,500 times. The post’s Hindi-language caption translates to English as: Those who beat the bush around secularism should see this. Indian Muslims were stopped for not wearing helmets and in a fit of anger they brought out guns and swords. Would police allow a Hindu to get away with this without issuing a penalty to them? An identical video was also shared alongside a similar claim here and here on Facebook. The claim is false. A reverse image search found the original video shared here on a YouTube channel called Helmet Man on March 20, 2021. Helmet Man identifies himself as a social entrepreneur called Raghvendra Kumar on his corresponding Instagram page . The title of the six-minute 26-second YouTube reads: Helmet man stops Muslims and tells them to wear helmets before going for their prayers, swords are raised. In the clip, Kumar can be seen talking to a crowd of people about the importance of motorcyclists wearing a helmet on the road. On his Facebook page, Helmet Man India , he uploaded an identical video here on March 21, 2021. Kumar told AFP that the footage was staged for a road safety awareness campaign. Both Hindus and Muslims were involved in making the video, which was filmed in the east Indian state of Bihar, he said. I along with some of my local Muslim friends created this video for educational purposes, he told AFP by phone on April 19, 2021. [In the video], they were carrying non-lethal air gun guns used in shooting sports. Kumar's road safety awareness videos have been reported in the Indian media, for example here and here . A longer version of the clip was uploaded here on the YouTube channel of Indian news outlet Today Darpan on March 23, 2021. (en)
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