No! It is fake news that the Hungarian police protects the border with pigs!

International press agency AFP published a fact check article on the issue because the original photo somebody modified was theirs. They revealed that it was taken on the Philippines after a deadly typhoon.

In fact, the photoshopped picture stating that Hungarian police officers are trying to deter migrants with a breastfeeding sow

has been circulating on the internet for years.

Since 2015, the doctored image has popped up many times on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, mostly in islamophobic, racist contexts. According to AFP, somebody put a Hungarian police officer in the place of a Philippine man and a lot of migrants into the background of the image which was originally a highway somewhere in the Philippines, suggesting that Hungarian police try to keep away Muslim migrants this way – Index reported.

According to AFP, the doctored image was shared more than 800 times since it was first published on March 10, 2016. Furthermore, a reverse image search on Google revealed that the picture had been photoshopped from an AFP photo published on October 19, 2015, on the website of French newspaper Le Dauphine Libere.

The original description of the photo was:

“A resident stands with his rescued sow and suckling piglets

as people wade through a flooded highway in Santa Rosa town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila on October 19, 2015, a day after the typhoon Koppu hit Aurora province. Residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines were trapped on their rooftops and animals floated down fast-rising rivers, as deadly Typhoon Koppu dumped more intense rain.”

In fact, this is not the first time that somebody would like to deter migrants with pigs. In 2016, György Schöpflin, an MEP of Fidesz, tweeted that pig heads would deter migrants more effectively than human images (the latter is “haram”, forbidden for religious Muslims). Afterwards, Schöpflin said that he had done nothing for which he would have to apologise. Zoltán Bolek, leader of the Hungarian Islamic Community,