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Crime & justice fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about crime & justice. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

6,837 published reviews in this topic

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaCrime & justice

පොලිස් අත්අඩංගුවට පත් ඇන්ඩෘ ටේට් (Andrew Tate) පැය 24ක් යෑමට පෙර නිදහස් කළා ද?

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The claim concerned social-media posts saying Andrew Tate had been released less than 24 hours after Romanian police arrested him. The review identifies the arrest as taking place in Romania on Thursday, December 29, with his brother Tristan and two Romanian nationals also detained. It says the posts used a tweet from Tate to suggest he had been freed, but the review’s conclusion was that he remained in custody. To check the release claim, the review says it searched major international news outlets and found no report that Tate had been released. Instead, it reports that a Bucharest court ordered all four detainees held for an additional 30 days. The review also cites reporting that Tate’s lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, said he was disappointed by the judge’s decision and had filed an appeal; the appeal could affect whether Tate remained detained for the full period. The review therefore distinguishes an appeal from an actual release. The review also describes Tate’s tweet as a source of confusion: it says he posted that “The Matrix” had sent its agents, but does not treat that post as proof that he had left custody. Its conclusion is that the claim of release was false at the time covered by the investigation, while noting that an appeal had been lodged against the detention order.

dpa FaktencheckCrime & justice

Bei der Razzia gegen Reichsbürger am 7. Dezember in Deutschland wurde nur eine Schusswaffe sichergestellt.

Publisher’s rating: Es gab wenige Stunden nach den Durchsuchungen tatsächlich erste Berichte über nur eine sichergestellte Schusswaffe. Doch bereits am Abend des selben Tages wurden Informationen publiziert, wonach mehrere Schusswaffen gefunden worden waren. Insgesamt waren es laut Innenausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages mehr als 40 Feuerwaffen. Die Falschbehauptung, dass es nur eine Waffe gewesen sei, hielt sich dennoch in sozialen Medien.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Visuals of a fight that broke out between a female lawyer and a female judge in a court in Maharashtra

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a video said to show a female lawyer and a female judge fighting in a court in Maharashtra. FACTLY reports that the video instead shows two female advocates fighting at the District Sessions Court in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh. That difference in both location and the women’s roles is central: the review describes neither a Maharashtra court nor a judge as one of the people fighting. To investigate the post’s description, the review says it searched the internet for reports of the alleged incident. It found media reports from October 2022 about a fight between two lawyers at the district sessions court in Kasganj. Citing Dainik Bhaskar, FACTLY says the dispute involved lawyers Yogita Saxena and Suneetha Kaushik and began with an argument on the court premises. The account therefore links the circulating footage to a reported incident in Uttar Pradesh, not the Maharashtra event alleged in the post. The review also cites a Kasganj Police post dated 28 October 2022. The police statement said a complaint had been submitted at the Kotwali Kasganj station the previous day and that a case was registered under relevant sections, with further action underway. This supports the reported setting and response to the Kasganj incident; the supplied review does not describe a separate verification of the video’s original recording or provide the underlying footage’s provenance.