AI Misuse: Spreading False Claims In regards to the Bondi Capturing

Shayan Sardarizadeh, Benedict Garman and Paul Brown
BBC Confirm

We have been taking a look at new dashcam footage exhibiting the early levels of Sunday’s assault on a Hanukkah occasion on Bondi Seashore in Sydney, Australia.

The video is filmed from a transferring car and exhibits a person in a purple shirt confronting one of many attackers, recognized as Sajid Akram, subsequent to a Hyundai Elantra hatchback and wrestling a firearm from him. One other bystander seems to be concerned.

Because the filming automotive passes, the shot switches to a rear view dashcam and we see a black and white flag draped throughout the windscreen of the Hyundai. The person within the purple shirt continues to be holding the weapon at this level.

BBC Monitoring’s jihadist media correspondent Mina al-Lami has recognized the flag because the “Uqab” banner, which is mostly related to Muslim jihadist teams, notably the so-called Islamic State group (IS).

We now have detected no indicators of AI manipulation within the footage.

On the very finish of the clip, we see the person within the purple shirt being shot, which was additionally captured in an extended video exhibiting the vast majority of the assault because it unfolded.

The video beneath accommodates distressing content material.

The footage then switches to a ultimate aerial shot exhibiting the our bodies of the 2 bystanders mendacity subsequent to the automotive. Australian media have recognized them as Boris and Sofia Gurman.

We’ve been in contact with the one who uploaded the dashcam footage, who stated in a social media submit the media had “not totally reported on this braveness” demonstrated by the couple.