His photo first circulated after the Brussels bombings, and now he's been accused of committing the Ansbach suicide attack.
A 27-year-old Syrian refugee set off a suicide bomb on Sunday near a wine bar in Ansbach, Germany. Soon after, a French Twitter user posted a photo of a refugee taking a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The tweet said the man was the bomber.
It said he committed the attack after having arrived in Germany two years ago and being "housed, fed, and paid" by the Merkel government.
That's not true.
The man in the photo is a Syrian refugee named Anas Modamani. He fled Damascus last year and now lives in Berlin. This is actually the second time Modamani has been falsely accused of committing a terrorist attack.
Anas Modamani
His photo with Merkel also circulated on Twitter after the Brussels Airport bombings in March.
Many far-right accounts misstook Modamani for Laachraoui Najim, one of the people behind the Brussels bombings.
Modamani's photo was also posted to the Facebook page run by Anonymous in Germany, according to Deutsche Welle.
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