The claim
Facebook pages Fაქტები (Facts), განსხვავებული ツ (Distinct) and Bachita published a man’s photo who has a noose around his neck and is smiling. All three posts have the identical description: He hacked accounts of 217 Banks, collected 400 million, and gave it to poor people…. He met his death with a smile, his name was Hamza, the Algerian hacker…”. On October 25, a photo with an identical description was published on the Facebook page „Georgian • ქართველი“ (Georgian•Georgian).
Rating
Posts published by the Facebook pages are photo manipulation. The man depicted in the photo isn’t Algerian hacker Hamza, but Majid Kavousifar who was executed for murdering a judge in Iran in 2007. In 2016, a U.S court sentenced Algerian hacker Hamza Bendelladj to 15 years in prison for robbing banks via a computer virus
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