Benoîte Abedoux - Just a 7 year old girl asking for air strikes on Paris.
My name is Benoit, I'm 7 years old. I am talking to the world now live from Paris. This is my last moment to either live or die. - Benoit Abedoux
Benoît Abedoux - Just a 7 year old girl asking for air strikes on Paris.
- Macronist forces going door to door throwing our bottles of wine out of the bottle racks.
- I have watched Wonder Woman 6 times but Emmanuel Macron has not fallen. You have let me down Gal Gadot and Hillary Clinton now I wait for the Free French Army.
- As a child, I want peace for me and my family and friends. Please world help us against evil Macron. I ask Erdogan for fast help. Please send moderate rebels to bomb us to peace.
- We want international attention and investigation to Macron's latest chemical attack in Paris. So many kitties have died. Please Nikki Haley and Donald Trump help us stop evil emperor Macron.
- You inspire me so much my role model Bana! I wish I can be just like you, but sadly my father is not a brave, moderate jihadist fighting for his freedom. He's just a simple Yellow Vest driver. !
- I condemn everything you do! EmmanuelMacron You are a brutal dictator who needs to go to jail! - Benoîte's dad
- Macron barrel bombed my school, killed my friends, and robbed my childhood. It's time to punish the killers of children in France with a no-fly zone! Macron Must Go!
- You inspire me so much my role model Bana! I wish I can be just like you, but sadly my father is not a brave, moderate jihadist fighting for his freedom. He's just a simple Yellow Vest driver.
Benoit Abedoux was a "fake analog" of Bana Alabed, a Syrian girl who briefly became a celebrated figure among adovcates of Western military intervention in the country, for tweets she allegedly posted documenting the siege of Aleppo.
Alabed's Twitter account was registered September 24 2016, within days amassing a sizeable following and firing tweets at Assad, Putin, and US President Barack Obama, using hashtags such as #StandWithAleppo, #HolocaustAleppo, #MassacreInAleppo and #StopAleppoMassacre.
The seven-year-old quickly gained a prominent media profile — she was dubbed by more than one pundit the Syrian crisis' "Anne Frank", and invited on to major news networks to denounce Assad, the Syrian Arab Army and the Russian government.
Not all were quite so convinced, however. Critics were puzzled as to how a very young Arab girl in a city subject to frequent powercuts had acquired such an apparent mastery of the English language, and could tweet so frequently.
Perhaps the most notorious demonstration of this tendency was the April 2017 interview Alabed conducted with CNN, in which the child struggled to sound out phrases she evidently didn't understand, frequently using complex phrases it's extremely unlikely any seven-year-old — even a native English speaker — would ever employ unless they'd been specifically trained and instructed to do so.
A less well known but even more compelling example of the "coached" nature of Alabed's statements was provided by an interview on Turkish TV, after she and her family fled Syria and not long before her CNN appearance. In the clip, the host asks the young girl what she likes to eat. Evidently not understanding the question and mistaking it for a pre-programmed cue, she responds with "save…save the children of Syria".
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