Doubts raised over authenticity of Charlie Hebdo footage (BBC) (and POOF… it’s gone)

from the BBC (blocked now) cached version (still up)

UPDATE: And another reader used the Wayback machine and found according to that, http://bbc-news.co.uk goes back 15 years. Don’t you think that’s an awful long time for a “fake” website to be cloning a major company’s webpage? And why is it when you simply type in the fake address, it automatically links you back to the real BBC News site?

More likely, this is a different version of a legitimate BBC News site run for a different audience in a different country and when this article with that image of smoke coming from the sleeve of the victim on the ground (yes, that image is on the BBC website) they suddenly had to go into damage control in the Westernized countries before word got out. They blocked access to that article and http://bbc-news.co.uk  in general. That makes more sense that a cloned BBC News website operation for 15 years without ever being shut down.

UPDATE: Well now wait a minute. Another reader found a cached version of the BBC News website on that different web address that everyone says is fake, with all their other current stories and links on it still up and running though it’s blocked to users from my country. I wonder if this is an example of MSM news outlets running different news on different sites in different countries. We know they do that with publications.

UPDATE: Seems like someone may have made a clever fake. Looked damn real to me and all the other links worked on it.

Here’s the cached version.

UPDATE: A reader, John, informed us that just like that, POOF, the article is blocked… man, that was quick (hee hee hee). It’s no wonder they crave a new CISPA.

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A video clip broadcast by news agencies across the world in relation to the recent events in Paris is now under scrutiny.

According to analysts, it appears that the footage was recorded over two takes, evidenced by a placement marker that appears by the front left wheel of the vehicle as the gunmen return from apparently gunning down a wounded Gendarme.

The killing of the french policeman is also being called into question, due to the ‘lack of blood spatter consistent with that of a close range shooting’.

As shown in the freeze frame below, smoke is shown to emit from the weapon (that is a lie), with no impact or trauma appearing to register on the body of the victim. The decision of many news outlets to blur out the victim is being debated as evidence of complicity in what many are now calling a hoax.

Forensic and ballistics expert David Mayhew commented; “If the video shows events as they actually occurred, then in my opinion it is most likely that the firearm shown is discharging blanks rather than conventional ammunition”.

[read more here (blocked now) cached version (still up)]

(after the break. I took screen shots of the full page from this article. I expected even the cached version to disappear. You will see they show the closeup view of the shot and the smoke coming from the victim, not the gun)