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Was the footage showing the policeman being shot in the Charlie Hebdo shootings a hoax?
There are many claims suggesting that Ahmed Merhabet, the policeman allegedly shot and killed by the Charlie Hebdo gunmen, was not actually killed in the way media outlets portrayed.
Several supporting arguments brought forth by this article…
user26968
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Do only 800K of 6M Muslims work in France?
Claim that has surfaced in local TV station coverage of French election:
There are 6 millions of Muslims in France, but only 800 thousands of them work
Are these numbers accurate?
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Did Talleyrand say "If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another"?
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (a.k.a. Talleyrand) was a French diplomat of the late 18th Century.
A number of websites of quotes (for example: [1], [2], [3]) claim that he said:
"If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one…
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Was Jean-Hugues Anglade mildly wounded in the Thalys shooting?
Several news sources reported and are still reporting French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade was mildly wounded in the 2015 Thalys train attack. He is quoted as claiming that the wound was a cut on his hand that he received while breaking the glass…
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Can hypnosis drastically modify someone's behavior?
A French TV program (Stars sous hypnose) shows celebrities who are hypnotized by an (apparently) famous hypnotizer (Mesmer).
They then proceed to do incredible things (believing to be vampires, forgetting the number 7, ...).
This looks very much…
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Does Halal certification fund terrorism?
Australia's One Nation political party claims Halal certification funds terrorism:
Do you realise that you are paying a tax/surcharge that funds ISLAMIC SCHOOLS AND MOSQUES, when you do your shopping? What is also believed is that it funds…
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Did Emma Willard send a letter to the French government appealing for women’s suffrage in 1848?
In T.M. Roberts' Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the challenge to American Exceptionalism it's said briefly (on p. 92 and without a citation/reference) that:
In 1848 Emma Willard, the director of the seminary that educated Stanton,
sent a public…
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Did de Gaulle Machiavellianly "cultivate" the Algerian junta but condemned it after taking power in 1958?
The New Yorker writes about the 1958 events in France:
Then, in June of 1958, a group of right-wing French military men, alarmed by the Fourth Republic’s failure to defeat the ongoing rebellion in Algeria, and worried that the French nationals…
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Has Egypt sold two French-made Mistral warships to Russia?
Claim: Poland's defense minister Antoni Macierewicz says he believes Egypt has sold two French-made Mistral warships to Russia for the symbolic price of $1.
Associated Press, 21/Oct/2016:
Antoni Macierewicz made the claim during a parliamentary…
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Which data are correct for the number of SARS-CoV2 positive tests in France on April 4?
The data published by the John Hopkins University report a sharp spike in new detected cases of SARS-CoV2 infections in France for two days ago (April 4), with 25000 new people tested positive in one day, a number that is an order of magnitude…
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