British refugees welcome (Not) in Madrid.

Brexit : non, Madrid ne souhaite pas la “bienvenue aux réfugiés britanniques”

Le vrai du faux numérique par Antoine Krempf mardi 28 juin 2016
Une photo retouchée pour annoncer l\\\'accueil de réfugiés britanniques à Madrid après le Brexit

Une photo retouchée pour annoncer l’accueil de réfugiés britanniques à Madrid après le Brexit © Capture d’écran Twitter. A retouched photo captured on Twitter welcoming British refugees to Madrid after Brexit.

Une photo modifiée a été largement depuis l’annonce du Brexit la semaine dernière. On y voit une affiche sur la facade de l’hôtel de ville de Madrid, offrant l’asile aux Britanniques.

A modified photo was widely displayed since Brexit last week. The sign was seen on the facade of the hotel de ville (town hall) in Madrid, offering asylum to the British.  

C’est une image largement partagée depuis le week-end dernier et le vote des électeurs britanniques en faveur du Brexit. On y voit donc une affiche “Bienvenue aux réfugiés britanniques” sur la face du palais des Communications, siège principal de la mairie de Madrid. Une image notamment relayée sur Twitter par le Haut-commissaire de Chypre à Londres.

This image was distributed widely since the Brexit vote last week. The sign says “Welcome to British refugees” and was re-transmitted on Twitter by the Cypriot high commissioner in London.

Sauf que… Except that…

Il s’agit d’une image modifiée. Comme l’a montré le site américain Snopes, la photo d’origine montre bien une affiche “refugees welcome” mais sans la mention “british”. Un slogan largement utilisé ces derniers mois pour apporter un soutien aux migrants venus de Syrie.

The issue is the image is modified. As shown on Snopes, the USA website, the photo originally well publicised as “refugees welcome” but without any mention of “British”. The slogan was used widely to gain support for migrants who came from Syria.

La photo originale prise à Madrid par Juan Alcor et postée sur Flickr

La photo originale prise à Madrid par Juan Alcor © Juan Alcor sur Flickr. The original photo taken in Madrid.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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