{"id":77887,"date":"2020-10-15T13:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=77887"},"modified":"2020-10-15T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:34:51","slug":"video-from-ecuador-falsely-linked-to-saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggis-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-ecuador-falsely-linked-to-saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggis-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from Ecuador falsely linked to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-second video that shows two men shooting another man in public has been widely shared across social media platforms. Several <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Today%2C%20shootout%20of%20colonel%20from%20Saudi%20Arabia%20who%20was%20involved%20in%20killing%20of%20journalist%20Jamal%20Khashoggi%20in%20Saudi%20Consulate%20in%20Turkey.&amp;src=typeahead_click&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=Today%2C%20shootout%20of%20colonel%20from%20Saudi%20Arabia%20who%20was%20involved%20in%20killing%20of%20journalist%20Jamal%20Khashoggi%20in%20Saudi%20Consulate%20in%20Turkey.&amp;f=AboT3pPGXAuv14evnxapR-fRUL7CJB62-2v_XtgYZ6DZAFgvS412UDQz9XKgmTbS06gs82-ROydxAbzE21QC3u96kFS3AYtwlJYpwcMielh2x9kZzdJbAn4onndKkxiuRas5_Vulw2jrcEBjzj4xGKzCny2AHjoOWIyL_GRnP25lom4ktDFxgjCuWtTdzpEsT-wibsoQXcsnCcQYnZmUhgaezT9wPXY3SK8wQintYf0BjvqtgRBXkLzHuKkI68rUVAER0h98ECxVXh533lCW6vqwKNS5jT1w2ZsMrsLamu0PFg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> users have shared this video with the text, &#8220;Today, shootout of colonel from Saudi Arabia who was involved in the killing of journalist Adnan Khashoggi in Saudi Consulate in Turkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MissdOportunity\/status\/1316242822098374659?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MissdOportunity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kashmirkikali3\/status\/1316060714717663232?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Kashmirkikali3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Satpal55616886\/status\/1316234472598114305?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Satpal55616886<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chandan_stp\/status\/1316042559056093185?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@chandan_stp<\/a> were among those who tweeted the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today Shootout of colonel from Saudi Arabia who was involved in Killing of Journalist Adnan Khashoggi in Saudi Consulate in Turkey<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/saudia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#saudia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Turkey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Turkey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3bBfzzJt0a\">pic.twitter.com\/3bBfzzJt0a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 chandan. \ud83c\udff9 (@chandan_stp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chandan_stp\/status\/1316042559056093185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was also shared by Pakistani users including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoVictims\/status\/1316099793521905665?s=20\">Voice of Pakistan<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fida9363677\/status\/1316050357408206848?s=20\">Fida Muhammad Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, shootout of colonel from Saudi Arabia who was involved in killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Consulate in Turkey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Co0zNLXCww\">pic.twitter.com\/Co0zNLXCww<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Voice of Pakistan\u2122 (@VoVictims) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoVictims\/status\/1316099793521905665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alt News received multiple verification requests on our WhatsApp helpline (+917600011160) and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\">official Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-77887 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-21_07_01-Facebook.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"865\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-21_07_01-Facebook.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/IMG_20201014_193420.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/IMG_20201014_193420-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/IMG_20201014_193420-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/IMG_20201014_193420-768x935.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/archit_shootout.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/archit_shootout.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/archit_shootout.png 760w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/archit_shootout-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Video shows murder of former Educadorian cop<\/h4>\n<p>Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist from Saudi Arabia who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45812399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murdered inside the country&#8217;s consulate<\/a> in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. He was critical of the Saudi government and was in a self-imposed exile in the US since 2017. Saudi officials said that he was assassinated by a team of agents who wanted his return to the Kingdom while Turkey claimed that the &#8216;rogue operation&#8217; was carried on the orders from the highest level of the Saudi government.<\/p>\n<p>Eight unidentified people were convicted of the murder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-45918610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to BBC<\/a>, one of the accused &#8220;spent two years working in London, with a source describing him as a colonel in Saudi intelligence to US news network CNN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the viral video is unrelated to Khashoggi&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>We performed a Google reverse image search using InVID and the search engine threw results with preselected keywords \u2014 &#8220;jorge fernando lino macas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77901 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-20_33_19-Google-Search.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1075\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-20_33_19-Google-Search.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-20_33_19-Google-Search-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-20_33_19-Google-Search-1024x374.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-14-20_33_19-Google-Search-768x281.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using this as a clue we performed a keyword search on Twitter and found that Revista Vistazo, an Ecuadorian news website, tweeted a still from the viral video and wrote in Spanish, \u201cJorge Fernando Lino Macas, a former policeman and singer, nicknamed &#8220;Vanilla&#8221;, was killed with at least 15 shots on the night of Thursday, January 2, 2020.\u201d The same was reported by Ecuador-based daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eluniverso.com\/noticias\/2020\/01\/03\/nota\/7673925\/hombre-muere-acribillado-suburbio-guayaquil\">El Universo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ACTUALIDAD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ACTUALIDAD<\/a> | Jorge Fernando Lino Macas, un expolic\u00eda y cantante, apodado como &#8220;Vanilla&#8221;, fue asesinado con al menos 15 disparos la noche del pasado jueves 2 de enero del 2020. \u00bfQU\u00c9 PAS\u00d3? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OrkkyfRJum\">https:\/\/t.co\/OrkkyfRJum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RYeqNtquhk\">pic.twitter.com\/RYeqNtquhk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Revista Vistazo (@revistavistazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revistavistazo\/status\/1213193404525502464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As per El Universo, the incident happened in Guayaquil. Lino had a long criminal history and was prosecuted for drug trafficking, murder and illicit association.<\/p>\n<p>This video was also viral in March with the claim that the incident happened at an outdoor restaurant in the coastal South African city of Durban. It was debunked by <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/fatal-shooting-took-place-ecuador\">AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the social media claim associated with the viral video is false. It doesn\u2019t show one of the men accused of Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s assassination being killed but pertains to the murder of a former Ecuadorian cop Jorge Fernando Lino Macas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-second video that shows two men shooting another man in public has been widely shared across social media platforms. Several Twitter and Facebook users have shared this video with the text, &#8220;Today, shootout of colonel from Saudi Arabia who was involved in the killing of journalist Adnan Khashoggi in Saudi Consulate in Turkey.&#8221; Twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":77910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-77887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video from Ecuador falsely linked to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#039;s murder case - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video from Ecuador falsely linked to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#039;s murder case - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 30-second video that shows two men shooting another man in public has been widely shared across social media platforms. 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