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Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

Das Video zeigt einen Polizeieinsatz im September 2022.

Publisher’s rating: Das Video ist nicht aktuell und stammt nicht aus Dortmund. Es wurde im Jahr 2017 während des G20-Gipfels in Hamburg aufgenommen.

The claim concerns footage circulated in September 2022 as showing a current police operation in Dortmund. The review says the video was being shared on Facebook with the caption “Dortmund, gerade eben,” but its investigation places the footage in Hamburg, not Dortmund: the scene is on Holstenstraße in the Altona district. The review therefore establishes that the clip does not show a police operation in Dortmund in September 2022. To identify the location, the review compared the video with Google Street View imagery. It reports that the road and surroundings match Holstenstraße and that the person filming was probably standing on the pedestrian bridge over the road. The bridge position is described as probable, while the review states the Hamburg location directly. The review also traces the clip to 4 July 2017, when a reporter posted it on Twitter with hashtags referring to Hamburg police and the G20. The reporter’s newsroom confirmed to the German Press Agency that the video was recorded on Holstenstraße during the G20 summit in Hamburg. The review says the clip circulated again on TikTok in late August 2022, but that the post did not disclose that the footage was more than five years old.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Visuals of the Enforcement Directorate’s raid at the house of a Surat-based cloth merchant named Sekhar Agarwal

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post identified the people counting cash in the video as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials raiding the Surat home of cloth merchant Sekhar Agarwal. FACTLY concluded that the footage was misattributed: it showed an ED search at an e-gaming firm in Kolkata, whose owner was Amir Khan, not a raid at Agarwal’s house. The article’s stated finding is that “The visuals of the post are from the ED Raid conducted at an e-gaming firm in Kolkata.” To check the claim, FACTLY says it searched for reports about an ED raid on Agarwal in Surat but found no relevant information. It then searched for reports about recent ED raids and found news reports containing the same visuals as the viral post. The article identifies an NDTV report about a search at the premises of Aamir Khan, who promoted the E-Nuggets e-gaming app, and says the video there matches the viral footage at the 1:11 mark. FACTLY summarizes its comparison as: “The video in the article has the same visuals as the viral post, from the 1:11 sec. timestamp.” The decisive evidence described in the review is therefore a match between the circulating footage and footage of the Kolkata search, alongside the different identity and location given in the reporting about that search. The excerpt does not provide further details about how the video match was verified, so the explanation is limited to the comparison and search methods the article reports.

dpaCrime & justice

Deze beelden tonen dat in Duitsland arrestaties aan de gang zijn bij de Duitse Bank.

Publisher’s rating: De video toont geen arrestaties bij de Duitse Bank. Op de beelden zien we een staatsbezoek bij het Schloß Bellevue, het officiële verblijf van de Duitse bondspresident.

The claim concerns footage of armed personnel and police vehicles in Berlin, presented as evidence that arrests were taking place at Deutsche Bank. The investigation distinguishes this video from an earlier claim about supposed raids at two German banks, and reports that the video does not show either arrests or a Deutsche Bank building. To locate the footage, the review describes checking visible features in the image, including the two-lane road, the palace in the background, traffic signs and statues near a gate from which a police convoy emerges. Those features identify the setting as Schloß Bellevue, the official residence of Germany’s federal president, rather than a bank. The review connects the security presence to a state visit on 12 September 2022. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid visited German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloß Bellevue that morning; the review says the leaders discussed Iran’s nuclear developments and the Israel–Germany partnership. The footage is thus explained by security for that visit, not by arrests at Deutsche Bank.

dpaCrime & justice

Deze foto's tonen een razzia bij twee Duitse banken in Berlijn.

Publisher’s rating: De claim dat de foto's een razzia laten zien in Berlijn klopt niet. De Berlijnse politie laat weten dat ze ter plekke aanwezig waren voor een bezoek van staatsgasten.

The claim concerned photographs circulating online of police vehicles and large grey buses in central Berlin. A Facebook post described the scene as a raid at two major German banks and called the buses prison transport vehicles. The review locates the photographs on Charlottenstraße, noting that Google Maps images confirmed the location. It reports that the Berlin police said there had been no raid there: officers were present because of a visit by state guests. (S1: “Volgens deze Facebookgebruiker tonen de beelden dat er een razzia gaande is bij twee grote Duitse banken. De bussen zouden 'gevangenisbussen' zijn.”; “De beelden zijn gemaakt in de Charlottenstraße in Berlijn, zoals opnames van Google Maps bevestigen.”; “Dat blijkt niet het geval te zijn geweest, zo laat de politie van Berlijn aan de Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) weten. De politie was ter plaatse door een bezoek van staatsgasten.”) The review provides a contemporaneous event that accounts for the police presence: on 12 September, the international conference “Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy” took place at the nearby Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It therefore connects the vehicles to the state guests’ visit, rather than to a raid at the banks. (S1: “En inderdaad, in het nabijgelegen Ministerie voor Buitenlandse Zaken vond op maandag 12 september de internationale conferentie 'Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy' plaats.”) The prison-bus description was also inconsistent with the scene examined. The review identifies the vehicles as ordinary tour buses parked outside a hotel on Charlottenstraße, and notes that German prisoner-transport buses have smaller windows and usually carry markings indicating their purpose. (S1: “Er staat normale reisbussen voor een hotel in de Charlottenstraße geparkeerd”; “Ze hebben kleinere ramen en meestal ook een opschrift waaruit blijkt dat het om gevangenentransport gaat.”)

FACTLYCrime & justice

Recently, after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, Salman Khan was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post claimed that Salman Khan had recently been convicted and sentenced to five years in jail after Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. FACTLY’s review identifies the actual five-year sentence as arising from a Jodhpur rural court’s blackbuck poaching case: the court sentenced Khan on 05 April 2018 for poaching two blackbucks in Kankani village in 1998. Khan was granted bail and released on 07 April 2018. The timeline contradicts the post’s implication that this sentence followed Rajput’s death. The review says Rajput was found dead at his Bandra residence on 14 June 2020, more than two years after Khan’s sentence and release. It also reports that Khan was not convicted again recently in any of the cases. The review separately checked the video shared with the post. It reports that Khan had published it on his own Instagram page on 20 July 2019, before Rajput’s death; the post’s accompanying message therefore does not establish a new conviction. FACTLY also says it searched for recent press reports of Khan’s arrest after Rajput’s death and found none. Taken together, the court-sentence chronology, the earlier provenance of the video and the reported absence of recent arrest reports do not support the claim of a new, post-2020 conviction and sentence.