DISINFO: OPCW faked data on chemical weapons in Syria, it has been proven many times
SUMMARY
Everything that we know [on the Navalny’s poisoning – context], we know from the words of people. From the words of people who are not ones to be trusted. We know very well that the OPCW falsified data on chemical attacks in Syria, this has been proven many times.
RESPONSE
No evidence given. Recurrent conspiracy narrative proliferated by Kremlin-linked outlets repeating statements by Russian officials. The OPCW said it found reasonable grounds to believe that chlorine was used as a weapon in the Douma district of Eastern Ghouta, Syria in April 2018. Read previous disinformation claims alleging that evidence confirms chemical attacks in Syria were falsified by the White Helmets, and that the White Helmets perform criminal activities and are an arm of British and American intelligence. The Syrian regime commissioned a documentary on staged chemical attacks. Russian TV programme Vesti Nedeli TV presented pictures from this fiction movie as documentary evidence of the staged attacks. See further information on The Insider. RT France received a reprimand from the French regulator for the report on "staged chemical attacks" in Syria. The reprimand was maintained by the State Council. The regulator found that instead of presenting such a point of view as an opinion, this Russian media outlet presented it as an established fact with anybody rebutting it.