Scandal in Quarticciolo: Fake News of Woman Thrown in Dumpster Exposed

Forget about a couple’s “indifference in the general public” argument, the video of the woman being thrown into a dumpster in Quarticciolo is a fake news. The images, spread on some social channels with a logo, went viral and were picked up by some minor newspapers that reproduced the video without conducting the necessary journalistic verifications. The video is false, or rather, it was staged for payment. The Carabinieri of the Casilina company, specifically those from the Centocelle station, discovered this after seeing the nearly 40-second video. They moved to investigate whether, as claimed by some, it was a “shocking” argument.

And so it was. The military found out that on Monday, February 17th, an unidentified man paid the two people filmed in the video. The two “actors,” the man and the woman, were found by the Carabinieri who have been patrolling the streets of Quarticciolo for some time, knowing them inch by inch. The images were captured at civic number 954 on Viale Palmiro Togliatti. The two individuals are known to the authorities. They are two drug addicts, a 50-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman. The couple was approached by a man that Monday, who had seen them drunk and offered them money to stage that scene.

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Fifty euros to the man, 20 euros to the woman. That was their “salary.” The “action” began. In the uncensored images with the original audio that RomaToday was able to view, the laughter of the person filming can be heard, commenting on the situation and referring to the woman as a “junkie,” showing awareness of her drug addiction problems. It is also noticeable how the man places the woman inside the dumpster and then closes it, only to open it again once the scene is over.

But there’s more. The 50-year-old man, questioned by the Carabinieri, admitted to having spent the money he earned on alcohol and crack doses in the nearby drug-dealing area. This is not the first time a video passed off as real has been circulated on social media and picked up by the media. Last November, there was the case of the fake news about a brawl on Casilina. Those images were not filmed in Rome; the viral video was actually shot in Portugal, as reported in this article.