Springtime in a park. Grey sky. A young man in a blue knitted hat and Adidas backpack walks down a path. Two burly security agents spring from a van and pin him to the pavement.

“What is your name?” asks a voice in English as a gloved hand holds the man’s face towards the camera.

“David Adrian Kercso,” he swiftly responds. Where is he from? “Romania. Romania.”

David Adrian Kercso was sentenced to 15 years in Russia for spying, but a Reuters analysis reveals his FSB arrest video was staged. via REUTERS

The video, released by Russia’s FSB security service and published by state media, purports to show the arrest of ​Kercso, now 23, a Romanian citizen who grew up in England and was sentenced earlier this year to 15 years for spying for Ukraine.

Reuters has not been able to verify all of the evidence in Kercso’s case.…