From BBC News:
A man has been found guilty of making sexual remarks to a group of girls aged between 12 and 14 in Dundee before grabbing and pushing one of them to the ground.
Ilia Belov, 22, claimed he confronted the girls after receiving abusive remarks and said he saw one of the girls with a knife in her waistband before the assault.
His sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, previously admitted assaulting a 13-year-old girl by seizing and pulling her hair, dragging her to the ground, and striking her on the head to her injury during the incident.
A clip of the girl brandishing a knife and an axe went viral last year, widely interpreted as either a brave young girl defending her sister from a predator or a feral racist child threatening an innocent migrant couple going about their business.
The latter version was promoted, perhaps unexpectedly, by the Daily Mail, which ran an “EXCLUSIVE” by Douglas Walker in which a man who identifed himself as the girl’s target gave his account of being threatened and abused. As introduced by Walker:
The ugly video clip from a Dundee housing estate in which a schoolgirl brandished a knife and an axe soon went viral… Now we can reveal the man being threatened is a family man who has been living in the UK for four years – and who was accompanied by his wife on the way to the shops when the incident occurred.
Far from being fresh off a cross-channel small inflatable, as implied by [Tommy] Robinson and [Elon] Musk, Fatos Ali Dumana, 21, says he came to Britain legally from Bulgaria and he and his wife have an eight-month-old baby.
So how come Fatos Ali Dumana in the Daily Mail now Ilia Belov? And why are photographs in the article inconsistent with Belov’s image in the BBC article, the most strikingly with the absence of a large cross tattoo on Dumana’s neck?
Although the “exclusive” was billed as “the truth”, Walker appears to hedge his bets by stating that
Police have officially refused to divulge the nationality or identity of Mr Dumana or what prompted the disagreement.
One interepretation is that some completely different person was put forward by the Mail as being the man who has now been convicted in relation to the confrontation, with his wife taking the place of Belov’s sister. Or altneratively, the Mail facilitated someone using an alias, with a fake tattoo forming part of the contrivance. Shenanigans of some sort.
Left: Fatos Ali Dumana in the Daily Mail; right: Ilia Belov on BBC News.
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