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FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of two Muslim women assaulting their husband and his Hindu girlfriend in a gym

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post presents the gym assault as a communal incident: it says two Muslim women attacked their husband and his Hindu girlfriend. FACTLY identifies the footage as showing an incident at Suja Fitness Center in the Kohefiza area of Bhopal in October 2021. It names the woman who assaulted the pair as Urba Shahi, her husband as Talha Shahim, and the sister accompanying her as Fiza. The review says all the people involved belonged to the same community, contradicting the post’s religious framing. To check the video’s provenance, FACTLY says it reverse-searched screenshots from the footage and found an October 2021 Dainik Bhaskar article with similar visuals. That report placed the incident at the same gym on 15 October 2021. According to the account summarized by FACTLY, Urba and her sister went there because Urba suspected her husband of an affair; she reportedly assaulted him and his alleged female friend with slippers. The review also reports that other media organizations published the video with a similar description. FACTLY further cites the then Kohefiza police station in-charge, who said the wife had followed her husband to the gym and that police were still investigating. It notes that police told BOOM both parties belonged to the same community and that there was no communal angle. The review also qualifies what was known about the woman who was assaulted: it says news websites had not disclosed her name or religious identity. Thus, the video and reporting support an assault at a Bhopal gym, but not the post’s claim that the alleged girlfriend was Hindu or that the people involved belonged to different communities.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of Karnataka Police arresting burqa-clad pro-hijab protestors and finding that 40 percent of them are boys in women’s attire

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined the video circulating with the claim that Karnataka Police had arrested burqa-clad pro-hijab protesters and found that 40 percent were boys in women’s attire. Its investigation found that the footage was not from the Karnataka hijab row: the visuals instead related to an earlier student protest against the National Education Policy (NEP). The review says the video had been posted in September 2021 under a title describing police using a lathi-charge on students protesting against the NEP in Bengaluru. [S1] To check the footage’s provenance, FACTLY says it ran screenshots through Google Reverse Image Search and found a news report with similar visuals. It also searched for reports about the incident. The review quotes a Times of India account saying police used a mild lathi-charge after NEP protesters tried to break through a barricade at Mysore Bank Circle and march towards Vidhana Soudha. That account describes a student protest, not an arrest of pro-hijab protesters. [S1] FACTLY further reports that the Karnataka Director General of Police called the viral claim a “fake item,” and that Bengaluru City Police shared a fact-check debunking another video with a similar claim. The review says its search found no reports that police had discovered boys in women’s attire among the protesters. Together, the identified earlier footage and the reporting about the NEP demonstration contradict the post’s identification of the video and its accompanying allegation. [S1]

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of a Hindu girl in Surat being killed with a knife by a Muslim boy when she refused to convert to Islam

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a video of a killing in Surat, Gujarat, said to show a Hindu girl being killed by a Muslim boy because she refused to convert to Islam. FACTLY’s review confirms that the video shows a real killing in Surat, but disputes the claim about the people’s religious identities and the stated motive. It reports the incident happened on 12 February 2022 in the Kamrej area, and names the victim as Grishma Vekariya and the accused as Fenil Goyani, described as a school-time friend of the victim. The review says it used reverse image searches of screenshots from the video and found the same video in a Times of India article. For the central identity question, FACTLY reports that it contacted Kamrej Police Station. Police officials told it that the accused was not Muslim and that both the accused and victim belonged to the Gujarati Patel community; the review also cites Ahmedabad Mirror for the same-community identification. This directly contradicts the claim that a Muslim boy killed her. FACTLY’s account says the accused slit the victim’s throat, then ran to an open plot and injured his own hands before police disarmed and detained him. It says police were investigating what led to the incident. The excerpt does not establish that the killing was prompted by a refusal to convert, so that motive should not be treated as verified. Its conclusion is that the video depicts the Surat incident, but the claim about the accused being Muslim is false.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

Vor dem Superior Court of Justice in Kanada wurde unter der Leitung des Anwalts Reiner Fuellmich eine Klage «wegen globaler Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit» mit dem Namen «Nürnberg 2» gegen die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) und die «Davos Group» eingereicht.

Publisher’s rating: Dafür gibt es keine Belege, wie eine Nachfrage beim Gericht zeigt. Eine Klage gegen die WHO wurde zwar abgewiesen, darin findet sich aber weder ein Bezug zu Fuellmich noch zu Davos.

The claim concerns a purported Canadian court case called “Nürnberg 2,” said to have been filed against the WHO and the “Davos Group” under Reiner Fuellmich’s leadership. The investigation identified the relevant court as likely Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice: it noted that Canada’s highest court is called the Supreme Court, and reported that the Ontario court’s press office directed the agency to a 2021 civil case, number CV-21-00085478-00CP. “Darin kommen jedoch weder der Name «Fuellmich» noch der Begriff «Davos Group» vor.” The case document does mention “Nuremberg,” but the review says it appears only once and without “2”; it also says that passage alludes to a different false claim. The case was dismissed in 2021 and did concern the WHO and pandemic measures, but the listed defendants also included Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth II. The filing therefore offers some overlap with the claim’s subject matter, but the review found no support in it for the asserted Fuellmich leadership, the “Davos Group” connection, or the claimed title “Nürnberg 2.” The review also reports that the final page named an organization and two individuals as counsel for the Canadian plaintiffs, not Fuellmich. It says an inquiry to Fuellmich about the circulating claims went unanswered. These details are consistent with the distinction the investigation draws between a real, dismissed lawsuit involving the WHO and the specific lawsuit described in the claim.