French TV Channels Scramble to Apologize After Airing Albanian Protests as Paris and Lyon
- On Saturday, French broadcasters CNEWS and franceinfo mistakenly aired footage of protests in Tirana, Albania, misidentifying the scenes as live demonstrations in Paris and Lyon.
- During the CNEWS broadcast, a commentator alleged the individuals shown were "behaving like future vandals, like future rioters," despite the images originating from central Tirana rather than Porte d'Italie.
- CNEWS presenter Olivier Benkemoun apologized on air for what the channel called "a confusion of images," blaming a control-room mix-up, while franceinfo corrected its attribution within three minutes.
- Far-Left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon labeled the misidentification "Pathetic" in a post on X, joining critics who scrutinized the channel's editorial standards.
- The Interior Ministry reported 1,314 arrests following Saturday's genuine nationwide demonstrations, which involved nearly 300 protests against soaring living costs and school funding.
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Two French television stations, CNEWS and Franceinfo, have apologized after broadcasting footage of protests in Tirana, mistakenly presenting them as demonstrations in Paris and Lyon. The error occurred on Saturday, October 24, while reporting on protests in France against the high cost of living and problems with education funding. CNEWS broadcast footage of masked protesters on a street in Tirana, identifying them as participants in the demons…
Claim: These images show the mobilization of military forces to suppress student protests in Albania Verdict: Lack of context ——————————————————————- While student protests in Albania have been ongoing since October 13, a video is circulating in some foreign media, but also on Albanian-speaking social networks, that allegedly shows the mobilization of military forces to suppress the protest. […]
Two French Channels Mistakenly Released Footage of Protests in Albania over Demonstrations in France
Errors on the air on October 24 were attributed to CNEWS and Franceinfo.
Telekanals showed images of protests in the Albanian capital Tirana as events in Paris and Lyon, both of which later apologized to the audience.
The Public Prosecutor's Office reported that it had opened a preliminary investigation after a video showing a man carrying a weapon in front of the brand Carrefour City, Cours Jean-Jaurès in Grenoble, on the afternoon of Saturday, 24 October, at the passage of the demonstrators.
Two French news channels apologized after having confused images of demonstrations in Albania with those taking place in France. CNEWS was the first to make this mistake on Saturday, while a massive march was taking place peacefully in the south of Paris — the most important of the 300 or so events organised in all [...]
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