The Germanwings crash "trial by media" continues unabated. The most recent evidence produced to back up the official story is the alleged discovery of a cell phone video of the last moments of the plane and its passengers. Reporters from both French magazine
Paris Match and German daily
Bild claim to have viewed the video that portrayed a scene "so chaotic that it was hard to identify people" where "the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them."
"It is a video that several of us saw together",
said Frédéric Helbert of Paris Match, "that we watched dozens of times. You must understand that this
video does not allow us to identify any people, it is not a sensationalist video. It is from a passenger who filmed from the back of the plane. The sound is atrocious. It shows the human dimension of panic, distress, screaming people on board. That is what is terrible.
It is a very powerful human element, but it doesn't provide any information that might be useful for the investigation."Indeed, such a video doesn't provide any information useful to the investigation, unless the investigation is being carried on by the mainstream media, with 'evidence', such as this video, being provided by persons unknown.
According to Helbert the video was obtained from "a source close to the investigation" that "required several levels of intermediaries connected to people working on the terrain." Whoever provided the alleged video to
Paris Match and
Bild did not, however, give them a copy. It seems the reporters were only
shown the video, presumably on some media device like a laptop which was then taken away. Helbert
said: "I don't have the video. We had the opportunity to see the video."