After two years, a video of a small child who supposedly speaks German is shared again.

And again we receive inquiries about this. It's about this video:

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Who does this child belong to (who speaks German)

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The fact check

This video has been circulating since 2014.

Already in 2015, colleague Andre :

On April 13, 2014, a video was published on the YouTube page “Unified Revolutionary Medical Office in Eastern Al-ghouta”. There is also a series of images accompanying this video on YouTube on the Medical Office's Facebook page. Contrary to many statements, the child is not tortured by a man, but receives medical help .

If you would like to watch the video to understand the topic, you can find the original on the Medical Office's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-sffP7rL0

The series of pictures can be found on the Facebook page. Caution! The images shown there include explicit material from the war zone, which is why we are only linking to one image in this series .

The upload date of the pictures and video is April 13th and based on the nature of the two pages it is fair to say that the recordings were taken not long before. The video description below the video reads:

الغوطة الشرقية (Medical Office in Eastern Al-ghouta)

ا شذ شذ ح ح ا التغذية يع يع يع يع اطف ا ا ا ا ختين أيض ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا Struction عظمي إ إ ا ا ا ا الحالة يتم تقديم ا اوع ووغذ ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل ل istance لمثل هذا يموت القلب من كمد…

صفحة المكتب الطبي في منطقة المرج – الغوطة الشرقية

It says here that the child depicted is a 4-year-old girl named Shaza and comes from the area east of Damascus (Syria). She and her sisters suffer from severe malnutrition. She was emaciated to the bone and had to be rushed to the hospital to receive medical care.

"I do not want"

Shaza was now treated by a doctor and was also able to eat there. Her treatment was filmed and the film was uploaded to YouTube by the “Unified Revolutionary Medical Office in Eastern Al-ghouta”, a non-governmental organization whose logo can generally be seen as a watermark in their recordings.

This video has been online for several weeks now and for a few days now a large number of people have been sure that they have heard the German sentence “I don't want” from this child in the video, several times.

Screenshot: Facebook, public status
Screenshot: Facebook, public status

Audio file:

We've isolated one of the parts from the video so you can listen closely:

Since the girl is crying so hard, it's hard to understand exactly what she's saying. If you want to, you may hear “I don’t want to.” However, we played the video to someone who speaks Arabic as a native language and got the following statement:

It's a shame that there are pictures like this out in the world again. So what I understand from this is either the child says something like “I’m hungry” or “leave me alone”. It mumbles pretty loudly. When I look at everything I think it says I'm hungry. The doctor talks about the severe emaciation in various areas.

Similar statements can also be found from people who know the language in an uploaded version on Facebook.

Screenshot: Facebook, public status
Screenshot: Facebook, public status

You can now argue about what you want to hear from these sentences. Everyone has to decide for themselves whether German-speaking people hear “I don’t want to” or Arabic-speaking people hear the request for food, but at this point we doubt that this is a German-speaking child. Simply because there is a national language meaning for the child's calls that corresponds to the situation .

More information about the girl

Since the video is now a good 2 months old, there is new information. The children's aid organization Noah, which helps children in Syria and also works on site, wrote the following statement 15 hours ago:

After receiving several inquiries about the half-starved German-speaking child, we would like to tell you that the video was recorded a few months ago in Ghouta (Damascus). The place is being systematically starved. If the child's parents did not or could not leave the country, then any child can be affected there. UNFORTUNATELY that's the reality...
Back to the video: The (sic!) little one apparently doesn't speak German; but very unclear in Arabic “Take away your hand” (Ib'ad yad ak anni)…. Unfortunately, we cannot help the children in Ghouta either! GOD PROTECT YOU.

Source & screenshot: Facebook page Children's Fund Noah
Source & screenshot: Facebook page Children's Fund Noah


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