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Gone to Africa to flee the Covid-19
By Fabien Leboucq March 13, 2020 at 3:10 PM

Two articles widely shared on social networks report an Italian exodus to escape the coronavirus. Nothing at our disposal confirms this information.
Question asked on 03/11/2020

Are Italians fleeing Europe to Africa to avoid the virus? ” Your question points to a tweet from Sihame Assbague shared more than 10,000 times. She writes that "Africa cannot accommodate all the (sanitary) misery of the world ... especially not that of Europe". Reason for this message (humorous, she says ): a tweet shared several thousand times from the Twitter account @ 237online. “Coronavirus: Afraid, the Italians flee to Africa. They evoke tourism as a reason for leaving. With the epidemic gaining ground in Europe, Africa is the default destination for frightened people, ” writes this Twitter account.

The tweet relays an article published Monday on 237online , which presents itself as "the opening on Cameroon". It reads: “Being the continent least affected by the epidemic, many Europeans, especially Italians fleeing the virus in their country, go there under the guise of tourism. According to a source from 237online.com in Italy, there are more than a hundred families ready (sic) to make the trip to Africa citing tourism as a reason. So they're just looking for a place to run away from the coronavirus. ”

This article, which totals 4,000 interactions on Facebook - and even more if we observe its recovery by the Facebook account Les Répliques - looks a lot like another, published the day before on the site 24days : same message, same photo of illustration ( tourists boarding an airplane branded Alitalia, the main Italian airline). This 24-day article , titled “Hundreds of Italian migrants en route to Africa to flee the coronavirus”, adds up to more than 20,000 interactions on Facebook. You can find almost the same sentence there as on 237online : “Africa, with the smallest number of cases, is the safest place to flee the coronavirus epidemic. Many Europeans, notably Italians fleeing the virus in their country, entered Africa under the guise of tourism. ”

https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2020/03/13/des-centaines-de-familles-italiennes-sont-elles-parties-en-afrique-pour-fuir-le-covid-

French version
https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2020/03/13/des-centaines-de-familles-italiennes-sont-elles-parties-en-afrique-pour-fuir-le-covid-19_1781275

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