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"I got stuck in this lie": how a swimmer invented a fake exploit and managed to trap several media

Summary by ladepeche.fr
While he claimed to have crossed 28 kilometres of the Bab Al-Mandab Strait between Djibouti and Yemen by free swimming, a 19-year-old swimmer confessed to having invented this whole story from several media outlets.

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ladepeche.fr broke the news in on Friday, April 25, 2025.
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