Mamoudou Gassama threatened with deportation? When a hoax is taken seriously

On the web, a rumor has it that Mamoudou Gassama, the young Malian who has become famous for saving a child from a Parisian balcony, is threatened with expulsion …

Mamoudou Gassama, the young Malian refugee who rescued a child from a balcony in May, is once again at the heart of a conspiracy theory. Or rather a hoax … He was received two days later at the Elysee to receive a medal of honor and be regularized before being naturalized soon French

"A satirical site"

The following days , conspiracy theories pointed their noses on social networks hinting that all this would be a staging. This Wednesday, July 18, a hoax has revived the controversy, as explained Le Monde . Originally posted on the website News7pm.com, the text states the following:

"According to a four-page report given Wednesday to French President Emmanuel Macron, the boy's father and a friend whose name was given like Jean-Pierre directed the act, to monetize the video on YouTube.The report revealed that the boy's father, Jean-Pierre, and Gassama, were all employees of the same company despite the fact that the 'Spiderman' was an undocumented migrant, with video surveillance footage showing Jean-Pierre taking the boy to the balcony and hugging him as he waited for Gassama. " Accordingly, "the report advised President Emmanuel Macron to revoke the citizenship of Gassama, which he did" . And the young Malian would even be the subject of an "expulsion" indicates the text.

This "article" was then taken up by several unreliable sites like Hits2babi or The Scrutineer, and shared on social networks. Problem: News7pm.com is a satirical site as it is indicated in the heading "Who are we?" : "You must know that this site is not a source of reliable information It is a satirical site. […] Everything on this site is only fiction. "

Le Monde also recalls that it is not up to the Head of State to decide to to withdraw the nationality of a person simply on the basis of a report, the deprivation of nationality is made "by decree taken after the assent of the Council of State" specifies the article 25 of the civil code. 19659003] Andre Bercoff trapped

The editorialist André Bercoff of Pascal Praud's show, L'Heure des pros (CNews), seems to have fallen into the trap anyway. He, who, on May 30 last, repeated a theory spread on the social networks by the extreme right while affirming about the rescue of a child by Mamoudou Gassama: "I believe that there are things which What questions did this baby ask, how did he hold it down from the fifth to the fourth, without a scratch practically, nothing? OK, no problem, get around ?! " He who promised then to conduct his investigation has in any case shared on his Twitter account the famous article of News7pm.com