Did the migrants set fire to the houses in Bihac where they were staying? They didn’t. It is fake news and the photo that allegedly proves those claims were made in 1993 on Igman mountain.
In December 2018, we published an analysis titled “Pyromanic Journalism”. The subject of our analysis was a website Mislipozitivno, and one of the articles we wrote about was published on November 27, 2018, with the following headline:
Migrants in BiH are Burning and Destroying Abandoned Houses in Which They’ve Been Staying in
Migrants who escaped the war, fled their homes and were temporarily housed in abandoned homes in Bihać, expressed their dissatisfaction and set these houses on fire, and therefore caused significant material damage.
Few of them were detained and taken to police premises for further examination.
As evidence for these claims, the article features the following picture:
The same article was published by a website, called Extrablic on June 10, while another web portal, Dalicom, published it in May. But, the massive burning of the houses, caused by migrants, had never happened. We have not been able to find such claims in any legitimate media.
The photo of the village in flames does exist, but it has nothing to do with the migrants. It is the photo of the village of Ljuta, located on Igman mountain, and the photo was taken on July 22, 1993. The photo is available on the Reuters site and it was captured by one of its photographers.
Considering that the story of the migrants who set fire to the houses they were staying in is not true and the fact that the mentioned photo was taken in 1993, these articles were rated as redistribution of fake news.
(Raskrinkavanje.ba)
