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IT IS DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH TRUTH FROM FALSEHOOD ON FACEBOOK….
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The volunteer who lied about the dead Syrian refugee at Berlin LaGeSo says he was just trying to “shake people up” http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/helfer-dirk-v–entschuldigt-sich-die-reue-des-lageso-luegners,10809148,33633042.html?dmcid=sm_tw …
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‘Dead Syrian’ #Facebook post spotlights #German refugee fears #migrantcrisis http://bit.ly/1SdwlAE
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BERLIN (AFP) – A Facebook post about the death of a Syrian refugee in Germany sparked a storm of reaction this week, only for the author to admit making it up, highlighting a rash of online rumours fuelled by a record asylum seeker influx.
At first glance, it was all too credible: a 24-year-old Syrian had been queuing for days in the cold at Berlin’s notoriously chaotic refugee registration centre Lageso even though he was ill.
Homeless and penniless, he finally went into cardiac arrest on the way to hospital and died, according to the account posted on Wednesday by kind-hearted volunteer Dirk Voltz, who had taken the man in.
But Voltz in fact fabricated the tale, duping not just national media and authorities but also Moabit Hilft, the neighbourhood aid group that he volunteers with.
“I acted out of a relationship based on trust,” said a dismayed Diana Henniges, from the aid group, who had confirmed the purported death to national media before Voltz finally admitted he had invented it.
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Finally, Voltz confessed to police he had, in a drunken stupor, lied.
“It is indicative of this overly excited, sometimes hysterical time, but also of the state of Lageso, that so many people have immediately believed such a death,” Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel said in an editorial.
After all, Moabit Hilft were the good guys – one of the key volunteer groups credited with averting disaster so far at Lageso by handing out clothes, warm drinks and food to asylum seekers huddling in the cold.
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/dead-syrian-facebook-post-spotlights-german-refugee-fears
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‘Dead Syrian’ Facebook post spotlights German refugee fears http://20read.com/2016/01/28/dead-syrian-facebook-post-spotlights-german-refugee-fears/ …
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