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Video Faked: But No Alligator in Vechta

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A video that was supposed to show an alligator in a local rain-retaining pool scared the city of Vechta. First it was said that the recording was authentic. Now it became known: everything was completely different.

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It turns out that there is no alligator swimming around in the Lower Saxon city of Vechta. Video evidence that someone had provided for this, turns out to have been recorded somewhere else after digital research. A young man reported to the police on Friday evening with the message that he had seen the reptile swimming in a rainwater basin in the city. As evidence, he provided video footage, which according to experts did indeed show an alligato…

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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The summer is there and with it a popular genre of local coverage: summer perch animals. At the end of last week a supposed alligator appears in Vechta. But the video, which is supposed to prove the find, turns out to be a fake. In Berlin there is a similar case at the same time.

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A video that was supposed to show an alligator in a local rain-retaining pool scared the city of Vechta. First it was said that the recording was authentic. Now it became known: everything was completely different.

·Germany
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A man wants to have filmed an alligator in a rain-retaining pool. The authorities consider the video to be authentic – and lie next to it.

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The excitement about a supposed alligator in Vechta in Lower Saxony is over. The video turns out to be a deception – a young man has admitted this by now.

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Since the weekend in Vechta, the search for an alleged alligator in a rain retention pool has been underway. However, according to the city, a man's evidence video for this was not produced there.

·Hamburg, Germany
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www.t-online.de broke the news in on Monday, June 16, 2025.
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