Greece: Children intentionally made to cry? (fact check)

A short video shows several people and a child being held in the smoke of a fire.

A video purports to prove that a child is deliberately made to cry at the border with Greece.

Various sites and accounts claim that this is so that the child cries for the photographers' cameras.
In fact, the child is helped against tear gas in his eyes before he is taken to the doctors.

In the 23-second video you can also see a crying woman who turns to the child, a man holds the child in the smoke and pats him on the back. It was taken on the Greek border and it is claimed that the child was supposed to be made to cry “for the lying press”.

This video is about:

The video was widely distributed on social media, along with the statement that can also be read under the video:

“Give your own child a slap and then hold it over the smoke and quickly go to the lying press so that they can broadcast the alleged misery on the television and to Merkel and a 2015 can repeat itself!”

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The source of the video from Greece

On March 2nd, WDR journalist Tuncay Özdamar the video on Twitter:

Just the first words of the tweet reveal what the video is actually about: “ Tear gas against small children ”.
A little earlier, TV reporter Jenan Moussa also tweeted the video , with the description: “ Children almost suffocating from tear gas fired by Greek guards at migrants gathered on Turkish Greek border ”.

Smoke versus tear gas

A short time later, the video was re-uploaded by English-language relevant accounts claiming that the children were being beaten to make them cry for the cameras:

As the Greek site “ Ellinika Hoaxes ” reports that during their research on the video, they came across many photos from professional photographers showing people trying to help their children with smoke against the tear gas.

In this video, for example, you can see in the last seconds how a man tries to clear his eyes of tear gas using smoke:

In the video that was circulated, you can also see a lot of smoke and people with cloths over their faces, which clearly shows that tear gas had been sprayed in this area shortly before.

The ARD journalist Natalie Amiri testifies that she has seen and used this method many times:

Medically, this is certainly not the best method, as tear gas (which is not strictly speaking a gas) consists of active chemicals such as chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS) and chloroacetophenone (CN), which have a solid structure at room temperature.
The best method is to rinse - but this is hardly possible in this situation. That's why the wine method is used to make the eyes water even more and to flush the solid chemicals out of the eye.

The site “ Ellinika Hoaxes ” even hired a translator who identified the language in the video as Persian, also known as Farsi.
The man who takes the child and runs says to the one who holds him over the smoke: بیار ببرمش اوژانس

In German: “ Take her to the emergency room!” “

This also explains why the men then run away with the child: not to waiting photographers, but to doctors!

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Conclusion

The video was recorded 200 meters from the Kastania border station, as “ Ellinika Hoaxes ” also documented in detail. Tear gas was also used extensively there.

All points taken together - use of tear gas, people with face protection, smoke, frequent use of smoke against tear gas in the eye, initial descriptions of the video, confirmation of the method, sentence of the man in the video - only lead to the conclusion that the child is actually against this Tear gas in the eyes should be helped.

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