A woman and a man giving a Nazi salute, with a flag with a swastika flying in the background. Here is the chilling image that a reader alerted us to. Internet users wrongly claim that the woman is Inna Shevchenko, a Ukrainian figure in the Femen movement and author for Charlie Hebdo. “Inna Shevshenko, a major Femen figure calling for a blockade of Marine Le Pen, poses with her friends in Ukraine. Everything is fine ! “, writes a user in a tweet relayed more than 650 times. The message is also relayed on Facebook.
The accusation is also circulating in English or Portuguese.
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As early as 2015, Inna Shevchenko had denied these accusations, which were already circulating online: “I inform you that this photo of an unknown woman in front of a Nazi flag is not a photo of me, she wrote on May 6. Also, I’m really sorry for the woman in the photo, because she could be very angry to know that she is taken for a member of the Femen…” The activist had even described the maneuver as a “fairly limited level of creativity” .
Five days earlier, on May 1, Femen had erupted in a National Front parade in Paris.
Pointing to “pro Putin trolls”, Inna Shevchenko once again denied these accusations this year, while accounts reshared the image under interviews with the young woman on the war in Ukraine. “I don’t think I even need to say it’s not me in the photos, she reiterated. But I will say this: Propagandists, идите нахуй [allez-vous faire foutre] ! I will not stop expressing myself. »
According to Microsoft Azure facial recognition software, Inna Shevchenko (left below) and the woman giving the Nazi salute are two different people:
Inna Shevchenko was granted refugee status in France in 2013. Originally from Ukraine, she had become the leader of Femen, a feminist movement, in France.