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Farage tweets poorly doctored photo to hit out at pro-refugee campaigners

Nigel Farage tweeted a doctored photo of a pro-refugee campaigner who he labelled “sick” after being misled.

The British MEP distributed the picture to his 1.2 million followers and garnered thousands of interactions before he removed it from his feed.

It showed a smiling woman at a march holding a sign reading: “My legs are open for refugees”.

The original picture, taken in Canada in 2015, read “my door is open for refugees”.

In a later Tweet Farage said: “The photograph turns out to be fake news but the refugees welcome brigade need to think harder about what is happening.”

The former UKIPer was humbled by the photographer in a series of tweets that explains the real origins of the pic.

Lasia Kretzel said: “This photo (whether edited or original) has nothing to do with Cologne, Malmo, sex, sexual abuse, or rape, nor does it indicate so.

“If you’re going to criticize something, please make sure what you’re distributing is authentic. As a fellow broadcaster, I think you owe it to the public to publish correct information, to apologize, and set the record straight when an error is made”.

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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