DISINFO: LGBT activists damaged icons to mark the IDAHO day
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: Ukraina.ru (archived)*
  • Date of publication: May 28, 2018
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 110
  • Countries / regions discussed: Greece, Georgia
Tags:
Western values Orthodox Church LGBT

DISINFO: LGBT activists damaged icons to mark the IDAHO day

SUMMARY

Members of LGBT community damaged icons in the Church of St. Catherine in Thessaloniki, when marking the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) on 17 May.

RESPONSE

The photo circulated in 2018 is 8 years old and first showed up on Greek internet forums in 2010. It depicted icons damaged by anarchist groups in April 2010. Greek anarchist groups vandalised the same icons in 2015 as well.Further debunking by Myth Detector.

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