Reported claimRated Incorrect. A spokesperson for the German government said these claims were “fictitious”, and there’s no evidence Mr Scholz owns any property in the US. The house shown in the video is actually an LAPD police academy owned by the City of Los Angeles, and has not been burnt down by the wildfires. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A video shows a multimillion dollar home owned by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that was recently destroyed by wildfires in Los Angeles.” Incorrect. A spokesperson for the German government said these claims were “fictitious”, and there’s no evidence Mr Scholz owns any property in the US. The house shown in the video is actually an LAPD police academy owned by the City of Los Angeles, and has not been burnt down by the wildfires..
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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