It is a 34-second video in which the force of water pushes cars along a road. There are also people clinging to or on top of cars trying to survive the intensity of the floods.
Publications on social networks suggest that this video shows what happened recently in the Valencian Community, after the High Level Isolated Depression (DANA) that devastated the region and caused at least 211 fatalities.
“People desperately cling to the roof of the car, while the floods carry them away,” reads one of the posts. The video in question also has a caption that supposedly contextualizes the images and warns of the need for a change in behavior: “Spain. Close enough to make us change something about the climate crisis? No, let’s leave everything the same.”
However, the video does not show the effects of DANA, which hit the Valencian Community on October 29. The floods seen in the video actually occurred in Spain, but in Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon, and in July 2023.
The video was published at the time in several of the main Spanish newspapers, such as Público and the local newspaper Diario de Aragón. And it was also shared on social networks in July 2023, long before the bad weather that recently affected the Valencian Community.
Massive flooding after heavy rains in Zaragoza, Spain????????? (06/07/2023)
TELEGRAM JOIN???? https://t.co/9cTkji4D9S pic.twitter.com/E2LlKbboJs
– Disaster News (@Top_Disaster) July 7, 2023
Conclusion
It is not true that the video that is being attributed to the effects of DANA in the Valencian Community corresponds to what really happened in that region. Rather, it is a video from July 2023, which shows the effects of flooding in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon.
Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:
MISLEADING
In Facebook’s rating system, this content is:
PARTLY FALSE: Content claims are a combination of accurate and inaccurate facts, or the main claim is misleading or incomplete.
NOTE: This content was curated by Observador as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.
Source: Observadora
