The gunman entered a business in the 700 block of Broadway where three family members were inside, including a 14-year-old boy, police said. The suspect approached a man on the sidewalk near Eighth and Broadway, held a gun to the man's face and pulled the trigger, but the weapon did not fire, police said. The incident shows a scene from a robbery that took place 23 years ago in Venezuela.Alisal Fire Grows to More Than 14,000 Acres Near Santa Barbara Thus the social media claim that the video shows an ISIS terrorist in Spain is false. Back then Boomlive and The Qunit had verified the clip. The video has been doing the rounds on social media at least since 2017 with false claims.
In 1998 BAE acquired an international profile when one of its snipers shot dead a gunman who’d taken a woman hostage in the town of Cúa, 40 miles from Caracas,” reads the article published shared in 2019. “He created the country’s first SWAT team, the Brigada de Acciones Especiales. The Wall Street Journal interviewed Iván Simonovis, the police chief who was the in-charge of the rescue operation. A longer clip was uploaded by YouTube channel NotiVideosHeinnermix which has close to 20 lakh views. It took place in Cúa, a city located in the Miranda State of Venezuela.Īnother keyword search using the Spanish phrase ‘Crisis de rehenes de Cúa 1998’ (translates to ‘1998 Cúa hostage crisis’ in English) on YouTube led us to the clip aired by Venevisión, a Venezuelan-based TV channel. Using this as clue Alt News performed a keyword search on Google and found that this incident is known as ‘1998 Cúa hostage crisis’. As per the video description, the kidnapper was Héctor Duarte and the incident took place in Venezuela. We found that Vimeo user ‘Prensamerica Internacional’ had uploaded the same video six years ago. Soni was also found to be behind the targeted harassment of journalist Ravish Kumar through a WhatsApp group.Īlt News has received several requests to fact-check this on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our official Android application.Īlt News performed a keyframe analysis and a subsequent reverse image on Google using InVid, a video analysis tool. Another report published in June 2018 revealed that he was part of the group behind the misinformation and propaganda Facebook page ‘BJP All India’. In a 2017 report, Alt News had found that he was running the popular disinformation news website Coverage Times. Isis terrorist with kidnapped woman shot dead by Spain police sharp shooters…What a shot in fraction of second amazing to watch /stXW7pxwgTĪkash RSS is ‘Akash Soni’. The video was also shared last year in August by several Twitter and Facebook.Īkash RSS was among those who amplified the claim.
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