The City of Dorval Denounces False News Circulating on the Internet
Dorval, January 27, 2015 – For a number of weeksnow, false news has been circulating on social networks, as well as via astring of emails, about the Mayor of Dorval having allegedly refused tofollow up on a request from Muslim parents asking him to remove porkfrom the City’s school cafeterias. The story also quotes speculativecomments from the Mayor in regards to Muslims.
The City of Dorval wishes to denounce this false article and resentsthis identity usurpation. Internet users across the world have publishedthis false news as it was true, and the Mayor would like to set therecord straight by saying that, on no account, he, nor any the City’srepresentatives, have made such comments.
Albeit difficult to track the origins of this hoax, our research hasled us to believe that it started in the United States. A similar hoaxabout a Mayor in Belgium had traveled the Web in 2013.