The video of the first Catholic communion falsely claimed to show the Muslim wedding for children

What has been claimed

The video shows an Islamic wedding between a child and a man.

Our verdict

False. The video shows a father and daughter at the first communion of the girl in Italy.

AAP Factcheck – a video does not show an Islamic wedding between a minor girl and an adult man, despite social statements.

The video actually shows a father and an Italian daughter during the first communion of the young girl, a traditional Catholic ceremony.

A New Zealand user distributed A Facebook post Presenting the video of a man who leans on a knee to present a girl with a ring.

“This is a valid Islamic marriage,” writes the text overlapping in the video, along with an emoji that shows a month of white crescent and a star on a purple tile.

However, an reverse images search shows that the event was not an Islamic wedding, but a man who gives a ring to his daughter in his first communion in Italy in 2023.

AAP Factcheck I found videos of the same scene from a different angle on Instagram The man’s account in the video: Gino Coppola, with an Italian legend that translates that “I will forever be your knight, I love you so much father.”

In the meantime, otherwise video Posted on the tiktok of Mr. Coppola, he shows him by standing his daughter with the title “Communion of our little one !!!”

AAP Factcheck He also contacted Mr. Coppola through his Instagram account, and he confirmed that the videos showed his daughter’s first communion.

– Yes, said Mr. Coppola.

“It’s a video with my daughter’s first communion. Now it spreads everywhere. ”

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