Video Shows Teacher Beating Student at School in UP? No, Video Is From Tunisia

This video is old from 2021 and is an incident from Tunisia and not India, as claimed.

Fact-Check: This video is from Tunisia and not India, as claimed. 

(Source: The Quint) 

A video showing a teacher brutally beating a student has gone viral on social media as one from Uttar Pradesh, India.

• Those sharing wrote, "These monsters charge exorbitant fees and abuse children to a great extent." Users tagged UP police and requested them to find the location of the video.

An archive of the post can be found here. 

(Source: Threads/Screenshot) 

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false as this video is from Tunisia and dates back to November 2021.

What we found: We divided the video into multiple keyframes and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across a Facebook post from Knooz FM from 25 November 2021. It carried a similar frames as the viral video. Knooz FM is a radio station based in Sousse, Tunisia.

• The post noted that the video showed a teacher violently assaulting a student in the classroom. The teacher who committed the assault was a substitute teacher and it was his first year teaching at the school, where he taught fifth-grade students.

• It said that the lack of experience may have led him to this act and was suspended from work as a precaution.

• We also found reports by Tunis Now and Jawhara FM from November 2021 also noted the ordeal as highlighted by Knooz FM.

Conclusion: A false claim has gone viral that the video showed a teacher beating a student at a school in UP, India.

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