The Mayor's Office of Madrid has filed a complaint with the police for an alleged crime of identity theft by the councilor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, in a videoconference interview with the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Sources from the Madrid City Council have assured that Martínez-Almeida was the victim of this impostor, as was the mayor-governor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, who suffered a similar incident.
From the Madrid City Council they have indicated that the conversation with the false Klitschko was interrupted when they verified that he was an impostor, and they have warned the Kyiv City Council of this circumstance, through the Madrid City Council's international relations subdirectorate.
Martínez-Almeida, who will speak this Saturday with the mayor of Kyiv, has described as "absolutely intolerable" that these events can occur at a time when the Ukrainian capital is being besieged by the invasion of the Russian army.
In the case of the mayor-governor of Berlin, Giffey spoke with the fake Klitschko by videoconference and was the victim of a "deepfake", that is, a video manipulated by artificial intelligence and extremely realistic in appearance, which was interrupted after "the direction of the conversation" will arouse "suspicion".
After about a quarter of an hour of conversation, the fake mayor asked Giffey to use the police to repatriate the men who had taken refuge in Germany to fight in the war in Ukraine.
He also asked, according to sources in the Berlin Senate, what measures the authorities were taking to prevent Ukrainian refugees from abusing social assistance in Germany.
According to these sources, Giffey did not react to these questions and did not reveal any compromising information.
