A video which has swept across Indian social media, depicting visibly distraught passengers pleading with airport police to “shoot them,” is both old and not what it claims to be as fake news exacerbates coronavirus anxiety.
Chaos (worked up, paranoid, projecting fears (footage began
circulating on WhatsApp across India on Wednesday, purporting to show
harrowing scenes of beleaguered passengers)) square Borasisi (distortion of data (Delhi airport chaos video is fake news say authorities)).
The footage began circulating on WhatsApp across India on Wednesday,
purporting to show harrowing scenes of beleaguered passengers screaming “Shoot us!” and “kill us!” at authorities as they were trapped in the airport.
The viral WhatsApp message, which has also spread online, is typically accompanied by text such as the following:
“Big
Chaos at New Delhi International airport T3 today morning. Now they are
taking the passport of the arriving passengers and not returning them
till all the tests are done. Even Indian citizens with Indian passport
holders are not allowed to exit the airport. Passengers are screaming at
police to kill them or shoot them. This is just unbelievable.”
The
fake news even reached the lofty heights of Bollywood as actress Soni
Razden shared the video out of apparent concern for her fellow Indian
citizens, before deleting the tweet and apologizing.
As it turns out, there was a crowd at the airport on Monday but no
passports were seized; the passengers in question were complaining about
additional coronavirus checks which were arranged in a separate zone
inside the airport for passengers arriving from a specific list of
countries.
The hysteria witnessed in the video was reportedly from passengers
who did not wish to be screened, but who did not have their passports
taken (only the Indian Passport Authority has the powers to impound
passports, police may only seize them briefly for inspection, according
to Section 102 of the Code of Criminal procedure).
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Source: .rt.com
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