Wait, they really believe that?

We were amazed when several readers drew our attention to a photo that was taken and published the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism This photo shows several men who were among the more than 2,000 demonstrators in Chemnitz carrying a banner in front of them.

We won't go into the demonstration here; you can find out more about it elsewhere ( ZEIT , ARD , Spiegel ). What is of interest to us is what can be seen on this banner and what the argument “We are COLORFUL until the blood spurts (sic)” really represents, because we have known since 2017.

Used with the kind permission of the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism eV
Used with the kind permission of the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism eV

Briefly about the suggestion of the statement: The slogan “We are COLORFUL until the blood spurts (sic)” is intended to suggest that the people depicted were at the mercy of migrant violence. In its original form, this collage even depicted 16 people. There would probably have been no room for the missing 4 (top row), so the layout of the banner would no longer have fit.

What is interesting is that this collage has now gained its own momentum and has become a kind of symbolic image for migrant violence in Germany, even though the images have nothing to do with it. In addition, it must be mentioned that the proposal originally claimed that all of them were German women who fell victim to migrant violence.

At this point you can sadly see very clearly how much disinformation and fakes can stir up hatred and ultimately even become iconized!

Here is our result:

Who is depicted in this collage and what really happened to these people?

For the sake of completeness

As already mentioned, the original artwork for this image depicts 4 additional people. Of course, we don't want to ignore this in the existing context. The original template:

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Image 1: Christina West from Florida

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  • Person Name: Christina West
  • Incident: police violence
  • from the year: 2013
  • comes from: Florida
  • Source: DailyMail

Photo 2: Shelley Jesso from Texas

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  • Person Name: Shelley Jesso
  • Incident: Was attacked while jogging
  • from the year: 2009
  • comes from: Texas
  • Source: TheWesternstar

Image 3: Emily McCaffrey from America

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  • Person Name: Emily McCaffrey
  • Incident: beaten by husband
  • from the year: 2009
  • comes from: USA
  • Source: jacksonfreepress

Image 4: Rebecca Beattie from England

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  • Person Name: Rebecca Beattie
  • Incident: abused by EX-boyfriend
  • from the year: 2012
  • comes from: England
  • Source: DailyMail

From here we explain the images on the banner:
Image 5: Nanna Skovmand from Denmark

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  • Person's name: Nanna Skovmand
  • Incident: Nanna Skovmand and her boyfriend Mads Schøllhammer were attacked by teenagers
  • from the year: 2014
  • comes from: Denmark
  • Source: bt.dk

Photo 6: Brittany Merrick from Australia

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  • Person Name: Brittany Merrick
  • Incident: Brittany Merrick and her friend Brittany Norris were attacked by a man
  • from the year: 2015
  • comes from: Australia
  • Source: DailyMail

Image 7: Lucy Newman from Scotland

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  • Person Name: Lucy Newman
  • Incident: was beaten by a man from Scotland
  • from the year: 2009
  • comes from: Scotland
  • Source: DailyStar.co.uk

Photo 8: Amy Rae Ferris from England

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  • Person Name: Amy Rae Ferris
  • Incident: was beaten by a woman
  • from the year: 2013
  • comes from: England
  • Source: DailyMail

Picture 9: Name unknown, comes from Cologne, Stuttgart or Manchester?

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  • Person's name: unknown
  • Incident: This picture keeps appearing on the internet. It's impossible to say what exactly happened. Various sites believe that it is an incident in Cologne (2016), others report an incident in Stuttgart , but it was also pointed out that it is a photo from 2013 that was .
  • from the year: 2013 / 2016
  • comes from: Cologne, Stuttgart or Manchester?
  • Source:

Picture 10: Name unknown from Ireland

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  • Person's name: unknown
  • Incident: The photo comes from a book called “The Woman Who Walked into Doors”. The author: Roddy Doyle from Ireland. The book is about abused women. The woman shown is one of 3 abused women featured in the book.
  • from the year: 2011
  • comes from: Ireland
  • Source: hubpages

Picture 11: Shawna L.

In our previous publications on this topic, we have always written “unknown” to picture 11 on this collage and called the person depicted as a “model”. We can now complete this missing piece of the puzzle, because picture 11 shows Shawna L.:

Picture with the blood ( here )

  • Name of person: self-reported Shawna L.
  • Incident: none
  • older than 2012
  • comes from the USA
  • Source: Yourself ( Twitter )

Image 12: Prof. Paul Kohler from England

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  • Name of the person: Prof. Paul Kohler (this is not even a woman!)
  • Incident: was attacked in his house
  • from the year: 2014
  • comes from: England
  • Source: Mirror.co.uk

 

Photo 13: Mary Brandon from England

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  • Person Name: Mary Brandon
  • Incident: was beaten by a man
  • from the year: 2014
  • comes from: England
  • Source: Mirror.co.uk

Photo 14: Helen Greaves from England

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  • Person Name: Helen Greaves
  • Incident: was attacked by 10 men
  • from the year: 2016
  • comes from: England
  • Source: TheBoltonnews.co.uk

Picture 15: Pensioner from England

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  • Name of person: unknown, pensioner from England
  • Incident: was attacked by two men (handbag robbery)
  • from the year: 2013
  • comes from: England
  • Source: Mirror.co.uk

Figure 16: Name unknown, is used again and again as a symbolic image

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  • Person's name: Unknown
  • Incident: Unknown
  • from the year: at least 2010
  • comes from: Unknown
  • Source: The photo first appeared in a bodybuilder forum 2010 and 2011 . We couldn't find out exactly what happened. The fact is that this photo repeatedly made the rounds online, especially in 2016 and 2017, and was used as a symbolic image for various acts. But always in different contexts. The photo appears again and again on Polish and Russian websites as well as on a website from Latvia . It was reported here in 2015 that a pregnant woman was beaten by a man. But that can't be true, because we found the photo in 2010. A very obscure story whose true origin can no longer be understood.
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