A Facebook post showing photos of Nathi Mthethwa, the late South African ambassador to France, alongside an image of a person appearing to fall from a building, has been circulating online.
The post claims to share “original footage” of Mthethwa’s fatal fall in Paris and includes a link to a supposed video of the incident.
This content has been reshared on multiple Facebook pages and has gained hundreds of thousands of views, giving the impression that genuine footage of the tragedy exists.
In September, ECR NewsWatch reported that Nathi Mthethwa had died after falling from a hotel in Paris, France. French authorities launched an investigation into the circumstances of his death.
According to Africa Check, the images included in the Facebook post are not linked to Mthethwa’s death. The link in the post does not lead to a real video of the incident. Instead, users are redirected to a suspicious website filled with pop-up advertisements.
A reverse image search of the video’s thumbnail revealed that it first appeared in 2019 in reports about an unrelated incident in Qinyang, Henan province, China. At the time, a 19-year-old student had fallen to his death from a high-rise building after part of the roof collapsed.
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