Video from France spread with claim of Moroccans wreaking havoc after entering Spain
NPB News has recently spread a video on Facebook with the claim that Moroccans are wreaking havoc after entering Spain. However, Dismislab’s fact-check has found that the video is not from Spain, but from France.
A 10-second video was posted on August 1 from the Facebook page of a Bangladesh-based media outlet named NPB News. The caption of the video reads, “Who is carrying out tandob (mayhem) across the city?” Text within the video reads, “Moroccans are wrecking everything after entering Spain.”
By the time this report was published, the video had been viewed more than 2 million times and shared roughly 1,000 times. In the comments, one person wrote, “Moroccan means Muslim, so anything is possible by them.” Another wrote, “All the Arab countries are indeed a mine of inhuman people.” Several others commented that the video was created using artificial intelligence, or AI.
The video has also been shared with the same claim from a Facebook profile created using the name and identity of Nurul Wahid, Europe correspondent for Ekattor Television. The video has also been spread with the same claim from several Facebook pages identifying themselves as online news portals (1, 2).
The same video has also been posted from a Facebook account operated from India. A Facebook page named “Uttarpara Nationalist BJP Fans” shared the video, writing, “If you want to destroy a country, introduce Islam into that country.” This post has been shared more than 300 times. In the comments, one person wrote, “The answer is one bullet. Shoot and sight.” Another wrote, “This virus has only one medicine, Israel.”
A reverse image search was conducted using keyframes from the video. This led to a video published on June 1 from an Instagram account named “Visegrad24.” This video matches exactly with the recently spread video. This account, which identifies itself as a social-media-based news outlet, states in the caption of the video report, “Toulouse celebrates Paris’s victory.” Naming this city in southern France, the video also has text reading, “Toulouse 2026.”
A keyword search led to detailed reports on the matter published by multiple news outlets on May 31 (1, 2). According to these reports, incidents of violence occurred in France on May 31 following Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) victory in the 2026 Champions League final — the scenes visible in the video. More than 400 people were arrested in these clashes between football supporters and police across France following PSG’s Champions League victory for the second consecutive time.
Meanwhile, an influx of thousands of people from Morocco into Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, began on July 30. The video from Visegrad24’s Instagram account was posted nearly two months before this event.
That is to say, the video spread with the claim of Moroccans wrecking everything after entering Spain is from a different event in France. It has no connection with the recent influx of Moroccans into Spain.
All social media captions, quotations, and news excerpts in this article have been translated into English from the languages in which they were originally posted or published.
