WATCH: Questions are being raised about whether a cellphone video, capturing the moments before Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed into the French Alps, actually exists. Stuart Greer reports.
TORONTO – Two European magazines claim to have obtained video shot inside the doomed Germanwings flight 9525 minutes before the plane crashed.
But whether that video actually exists is unclear; neither magazine has posted proof in the form of screenshots or video and French prosecutors have called allegations a video exists “completely wrong.”
French Magazine Paris Match and German magazine Das Bild both posted similar articles attributed to Frederic Helbert.
The Paris Match article also prints, what it says, is a transcript of the “chaotic” scene and writes the screaming passengers “made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them.”
“Metallic banging can also be heard more than three times, perhaps of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object,” Helbert writes in Paris Match.
“Towards the end, after a heavy shake, stronger than the others, the screaming intensifies. Then nothing. “
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Both magazines reported the video was found near the crash site and obtained from someone close to the investigation.
But others, also close to the investigation, have denied that a video exists.
CNN reported Wednesday that Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said “so far no videos were used in the crash investigation.”
CNN goes on to say that Lt. Col. Jean-Marc Menichini, a spokesperson for the investigation, said the reports were “completely wrong” and “unwarranted.”
The Airbus A320 crashed into the French Alps on March 24 after Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of the plane, is accused of deliberately crashing, killing all 150 people on board.
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Bild’s editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt told CNN that he believes the video is authentic and says he has seen it, calling it a “very disturbing scene.”
“What we say Erin, is a shot taken inside the cabin that is a couple of seconds long. It appears to us that it shows most likely the final moments of the plane before it crashed into the mountains.”
He wouldn’t go into detail about how Paris Match and Bild allegedly obtained the video, except to say it was a collaborative effort, and that journalist Frederich Helbert found it through his sources and did verify it.
Reichelt wrote on Twitter the publication won’t release the video.
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