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Fact Check: Videos Do NOT Show Migrant Toppling Cross Or Burning Church In Ceuta, Spain — Separate Incidents, Different Countries

Do videos show a migrant toppling a cross and a burning church in Ceuta, Spain? No, that's not true: Neither video used to support the claim is from the Spanish enclave. The first shows an incident from July 2026 in West Bengal, India, while the second shows a fire at a convent in Cuenca, central […]

By deepak · August 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Do videos show a migrant toppling a cross and a burning church in Ceuta, Spain? No, that's not true: Neither video used to support the claim is from the Spanish enclave. The first shows an incident from July 2026 in West Bengal, India, while the second shows a fire at a convent in Cuenca, central Spain, in May 2024.

The claim appeared in a post and videos (archived here) by the @benoitm_mtl account on X on Aug. 20, 2026. Translated from French, it read:

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Image sources: post by @benoitm_mtl on X.

The first video — showing the man on the roof — shows an incident from July 5, 2026, in Subhashgram, West Bengal, India, when a mob vandalized an under-construction church (archived here). Video from the scene shows an attacker pulling crosses down from the roof.

Another video (archived here) of the same incident, showing the same man, is embedded below:

The second video — showing flames at the entrance of a building — is from an arson fire (archived here) at the Convent of the Franciscan Conceptionists in Cuenca, Spain, in May 2024.

The video (archived here) is embedded below:

Source: Read the original article on www.yahoo.com