DigitEye India Fact Checkers
A video is going viral showing a pro-Khalistan supporter threatening another person of dire consequences. The supporter was heard saying in Punjabi, “Gujaratis, listen properly. We’ll give you two-two slaps. If you want to have langar, keep quiet and have langar. Your community has done a lot of drama after drinking urine. I’m telling all Gujaratis, if you start fighting, we’ll go into Gujarat, your home, and fight you. Go drink urine. Go do what you want.”
#CanadaNews #CanadaSupportTerrorism #canadaindia
Gujaratis being openly threatened in Canada pic.twitter.com/NOGohpSQZn— William (@cyn_hic) September 24, 2023
Here’s another post where the same video was used and Canada PM was tagged:
Open threats to #Indian Gujaratis on the streets of #Canada!
SHAME SHAME @JustinTrudeau SHAME!@HCI_Ottawa #IndiaCanadaTension #IndiaCanada pic.twitter.com/QrU9yx0vaP
— Varun 🇮🇳 (@varunc_bjp) September 24, 2023
Similar posts are being shared on social media here and here.
FACT CHECK
When we searched for the key frames of the video in Google Reverse Image Search, we found a similar incident reported in March this year but from Southall in the United Kingdom when the controversy over an attack on the Indian High Commissin in London was making headlines.
Watch: In a viral video today, a radical Khalistan extremist can be seen threatening a Gujarati passerby in foreign country pic.twitter.com/H48rUYRtEH
— DeshGujarat (@DeshGujarat) March 22, 2023
The incident was widely reported and a video was uploaded by the news outlet OneIndia with the tile:”Khalistani supporters threaten a Gujarati man in Southall.” The video shows pro-Khalistan leader Avtar Singh Khanda, one of the suspects in an attack on the Indian High Commission in London. The news on this incident can be seen here and here.
In the video, some protestors were seen heckling a passerby. In a twitter post, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa condemned the incident as well.
Hence, the video and the claim are false and unrelated.
Claim: Gujaratis being threatened by Khalistanis in Canada after the recent diplomatic tensions
Conclusion: The original video was from Southall in UK after the attack on Indian High Commission in March 2023.
Rating: Misrepresentation — 
