A video retweeted by Donald Trump of a Muslim migrant beating up a boy on crutches was today dismissed as fake news by police in the Netherlands.
A spokeswoman said the attacker in the video is a Dutch national – and not an immigrant as claimed by British nationalists.
The video is six months old and was filmed in Monnickendam, ten miles north of Amsterdam, they said.
A Monnickendam Police spokeswoman told MailOnline: ‘The guy in the video attacking a boy on crutches is a Dutch national.’
Meanwhile respected Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted sources as saying that the perpetrator is ‘not a Muslim, let alone a migrant, but just a Dutchman.’
The first video President Trump posted depicted ‘Muslim migrant’ according to Jayda Fransen, beating up a ‘Dutch boy on crutches’
The second video shows a ‘Muslim man’ speaking to the camera and then bashing a statue of Virgin Mary on the ground, shattering her
The third video President Trump retweeted shows an ‘Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!’
President Trump retweeted three videos that purportedly showed ‘Muslims’ doing bad deeds, which were initially posted by far-right Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, who has been convicted of hate crimes.
Trump also posted footage of a Muslim man ‘destroying a statue of Virgin Mary’ – and a video apparently showing an Islamist mob pushing teenage boy off roof and beating him to death.
But MailOnline has found that despite being posted by Ms Fransen yesterday both videos are at least five years old.
The first showing the destruction of the Virgin Mary statue was first reported back in 2012.
And the second showing men waving Al Qaeda banners throwing a terrified teenage boy off 20ft ledge before beating him to death was first posted the same year.
The videos were posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First (pictured)
The White shrugged off suggestions that anti-Muslim videos President Trump spread online might be fake – because the ‘threat’ is real.
‘Whether it is a real video, the threat is real,’ President Trump’s spokesperson Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told journalists.
‘That is what the president is talking about, that is what the president is focused on dealing with, those real threats and those are real no matter how you look at it.’
None of the videos posted by Ms Fransen – who is the deputy leader of Britain First, a group that stands against the Islamisation of the United Kingdom – have been verified, with police saying that a ‘Muslim migrant’ portrayed in one, is a Dutch citizen.
Trump’s postings have caused outrage in the United Kingdom, as a number of members of parliament have said they want to see his invitation to visit the country next year rescinded. However, British Prime Minister Theresa May has said the visit will go on.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joined calls for the government to take a tough stance on Mr Trump’s retweets
Labour MP and Home Affairs Committee chair Yvette Cooper said the government ‘must condemn’ the retweets by Mr Trump
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Britain First sought to divide communities through its use of ‘hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions’.
‘It is wrong for the president to have done this,’ the spokesman said.
Despite the slapdown, Mrs May’s spokesman made clear that the controversial invitation for the president to make a state visit to the UK, made when Theresa May met Mr Trump in Washington in January, still stood.
‘The invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted. Further details will be announced in due course,’ the spokesman said.