Reston asylum seeker/filmmaker stands accused of faking assassination attempt to promote his film and scam GoFundMe
It was a scene that seemed straight out of a movie: A dark street, a bloody stabbing, a business meeting turned assassination attempt.
But what if the whole thing was as fake as a film on the big screen?
These are the questions swirling around Muhammad Bayazid, the Syrian filmmaker allegedly stabbed in a plot concocted by dictator Bashar al-Assad or his supporters.
Bayazid won the world's support - and thousands of dollars in donations - until leaked videos appeared to show him planning the attack in an attempt to fund his first feature film.
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