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| - Fact Check: Video of immigrants jumping out of moving bus window NOT from Germany
This video shows immigrants escaping from a moving bus in Algeria in Africa, not Germany.
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India Today Fact Check
This video shows immigrants making an escape in Algeria, a north African country. It has no links to Germany.
Jumping successively out of a broken glass window, several men could be seen making an escape from a moving bus in a video that’s going viral on social media. Allegedly, this incident took place in Germany where African migrants escaped a bus that was deporting them.
One person tweeted the video writing, “Africans being deported from Germany decide they don’t want to leave.” Archived versions of such tweets can be found here and here.
India Today, however, found that the video has no links to Germany. The incident took place in Algeria, a country in North Africa.
Our Probe
A reverse search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a news report by the Arabic edition of Russia’s state-media outlet RT dated July 3. Carrying a screenshot of the viral video, it stated that the clip showed the mass escape of illegal immigrants during their deportation in Algeria. Several people shared the video in question on social media platforms around the same time, stating that the incident unfolded in Algeria.
Further searches led us to several media reports about the incident in Arabic. Reportedly, the bus was carrying people back to countries in the Sahel and Sahara regions of Africa. The immigrants, however, broke a window, jumped out of the moving bus, and fled to areas close to the road. This reportedly halted traffic on the east-west highway, also referred to as the A1 Highway, of Algeria.
In the viral video, we noticed the number plate of a car that was made of three groups of numbers. We found that the number plates of vehicles in Algeria solely comprise numbers. Cars in Germany, on the other hand, have both alphabets as well as numbers on their license plates. Below is the comparison between the number plate of a car seen in the viral video and those of Algeria and Germany, reiterating that the video was shot in Algeria.
Record high immigration in Germany
It is noteworthy that with people fleeing from Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia, immigration in Germany reached a record high in 2022 with a net gain of 1.46 million people. This came when a big chunk of the population in Germany was already composed of people who either immigrated to the country or were children of immigrants. Recently, the German Parliament or the Bundestag passed a new immigration law reform on June 23 to open up new job opportunities for the refugees.
While immigrants are indeed flocking to Germany for jobs and residences, the viral video has no links to it.
(Written by Sanjana Saxena)
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