A video purporting to show white people urinating on a black woman in front of onlookers has been shared thousands of times on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp in Nigeria, alongside claims that it captures French citizens humiliating a Malian woman as a form of retaliation against the country’s ruling military junta. But the claims are false: AFP Fact Check found that the clip has been on the internet since 2013 and shows the work of a Guatemalan performance artist staged during a summit in Brazil.

The video has been retweeted more than 300 times and drawn over 20,000 views on Twitter.

The tweet reads: “A group of French citizens caught on camera urinating on Malian Citizen after a new millitarey Regime end the relationship between Malian and France government Amid the atrocities Being committing against Malians in Mali by the government of France! (sic)”.

The same footage has been shared on Facebook as well as in numerous WhatsApp groups in Nigeria.

The clip, about two minutes long, appears to show white men and women taking turns to urinate on a naked black woman, who is curled up on the ground and surrounded by a circle of people.

However, the scenes depicted in the footage have nothing to do with France or events in Mali.

Video shot in Brazil

A reverse image search of keyframes from the video led to this footage on video-sharing platform Vimeo from five years ago.

The title reads: “performance PIEDRA de REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO (sic)”.

A further search of the keywords from...

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