Game of Deception: How a Fraudster Who Faked His Stories for Years Got to be Germany’s Top Reporter

• Game of Deception: How a Fraudster Who Faked His Stories for Years Got to be Germany’s Top Reporter
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Germany has been rocked by a scandal involving one of the top reporters writing for the reputable Der Spiegel magazine, who turned out to be a fraudster. What made a fabulst into a star? Let’s look at some of his stories.
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  Claas Relotius, the ‘brilliant reporter’-turned-fabricator, carved his way to pages of some of the most prestigious German newspapers with curious, sentimental and touching human stories from everyday life. Although, some of these intimate private stories clearly had some political angle.
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  Syrian ‘Resistance’ hero
  The piece that brought him his latest (and probably the last) journalist award delved into a much more high-profile and much more politicized topic – the Syrian crisis. The article centers around the plight of a Syrian teenager living in the city of Deraa, who stood against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, using graffiti as a tool to express himself.
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