The resemblance is uncanny. On social networks, a photo showing a man in a swimsuit at the edge of a swimming pool, whose face resembles that of Gabriel Attal, has created confusion among many Internet users.
The photo gained a particular audience after it was shared by the X account “Zoé Sagan”, to which 20 Minutes recently devoted an investigation. “The first female AI of the 21st century” (which is not really one), published this Thursday, January 11 the snapshot associated with a tweet questioning the validity of the Prime Minister’s diplomas. “Paris Assas University confirms that Gabriel Attal never graduated from the establishment. Will @sciencespo Paris have the courage to confirm its fraudulent “validation of acquired knowledge”? “.
The photo, attributed to Gabriel Attal, was also shared on Facebook and forums like 4chan.
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The photo does not show the posterior of the new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. It was actually posted on the social media of an American actor named Danny Plotner. For example, we find the cliché on his Instagram account, posted on August 10, 2023. The photo also appears to have been published on X before being deleted.
Other posts on the actor’s Instagram account show that the resemblance is not so striking after all, and that this effect is only created by the particular angle of the selfie.
Danny Plotner also reacted in his story with a photo of the Prime Minister and the text: “Now that Gabriel Attal is officially the Prime Minister of France, the DMs are exploding again. Can I see it a little? I do not see it ? », accompanied by the hashtag #doppelganger (which means lookalike in German). Contacted, the actor did not respond to our requests.
The Zoé Sagan account also finally recognized the manipulation in a tweet: “The official double of Gabriel Attal is becoming a real star. It is true that the Prime Minister’s body is not as muscular but that doesn’t matter. »
Concerning the failure to obtain the law license of Gabriel Attal, this assertion comes from‘an article from Echos Start published on January 9, which explains having received this information from the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Asked by 20 minutes On this subject, the university has not yet responded.