Posts have been shared in multiple languages ​​since mid-July. In question are photographs of two men in bathing suits and with nazi body tattoos. According to the authors of the publications, these two men are Ukrainian refugees on a beach in Croatia. But actually they are two Hungarian tourists.

According to a July 16, 2022 article on the Croatian website Antifašistički Vjesnik, the two men meet at the Morski Prasac bar in Rijeka, a coastal city and the third largest in Croatia. The images of the bar available on Google Maps confirm that the photographs circulating on social networks were taken there.

You two men are hungarian and the tallest with the tattooed face (on the left) is Bassist of the band Fehér Törvény. In a photo dated 2018 and published by the same Croatian website, he can be seen playing the guitar with a shirt that says: “Blood and Honor” (“Blood and Honor”, ​​in Portuguese), a group that defends supremacy white. and that it has branches in several countries.

Antifašistički Vjesnik even published a message posted on July 3, 2022 in the group “Blood and honor Hungary” on Telegram, saying that the day before there had been a show in Croatia with three bands: one of them, Fehér Törvény — which can justify the bassist’s presence on that Croatian beach. By the way, the same place states that these Hungarian tourists were in Rijeka for a “neo-Nazi meeting”.

After this website published the photos, the Croatian police received a complaint, on July 13, 2022, that “there were two tattooed men with Nazi symbols tattooed on their bodies on the beach”. As revealed by the police to the local newspaper Dnevnik, the agents went to the scene, but were informed by the restaurant employees that the “the men had been on that beach, but ten days before” — which coincides with the date of the show in Croatia with three bands, on July 3.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, false information accusing Ukrainians of being Nazis began to circulate on social networks, in order to proliferate. Russia’s arguments that it only attacked Ukraine to “denazify” the country. This seems to be another example.

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Photos of two men in bathing suits with Nazi tattoos on their bodies are being shared on social media. According to the authors of the publications, these two men are Ukrainian refugees on a beach in Croatia.

However, both men are Hungarian and one of them is a bass player for the band Fehér Törvény, one of three bands that performed a show in Croatia on July 2. Furthermore, the two Hungarian tourists were in Rijeka for a “neo-Nazi meeting”.

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