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Crime & justice fact checks

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

6,849 published reviews in this topic

dpaCrime & justice

Albert Bourla werd vrijdag gearresteerd wegens fraude

Publisher’s rating: De berichten zijn onjuist. Albert Bourla is niet gearresteerd op vrijdag 5 november 2021. Er is nergens bewijs of beeldmateriaal te vinden van deze vermeende arrestatie of huiszoeking. Daarnaast verscheen Bourla op de dag van zijn vermeende arrestatie live in verschillende televisieprogramma’s.

dpaCrime & justice

Une photo montre un jeune garçon accusé de vol aux États-Unis.

Publisher’s rating: Il n’y a aucune preuve que cette scène ait eu lieu. La photo montre le jeune Cristian Fernandez à ses douze ans. Aprés avoir plaidé coupable, Fernandez a passé sept années en prison pour homicide involontaire. La victime était son demi-frère âgé de 2 ans et demi.

The claim concerns a photo circulated with a story that a boy in the United States was caught stealing bread and cheese. The story describes a judge imposing a fine on the shop and asking people in court to give the child money. The review says the image does not document that incident: it identifies the boy as Cristian Fernandez, photographed at age 12, in a different case. The review’s account is that Fernandez pleaded guilty to involuntary homicide and spent seven years in juvenile detention; the victim was his two-and-a-half-year-old half-brother. The review describes how it traced the image. A search for the photo posted on Facebook led to Fernandez’s case. It also found the image on a 2012 page from the Florida Times-Union listing people accused of domestic-violence-related homicides the previous year. That page’s caption identifies Fernandez, gives his age as 12, and says he was accused of killing his younger brother in Jacksonville, Florida. The review further notes that an inset image in the viral collage showed a children’s bedroom, unrelated to a shop theft. The review distinguishes the documented photo and criminal case from the accompanying courtroom story: it says there is no evidence that the dialogue shared on Facebook happened. It reports that Fernandez was released in 2018, a day after turning 19. Thus, the image’s real-world provenance is a different event from the alleged food theft, and the review found no evidence supporting the story attached to it.

dpaCrime & justice

Le PDG de Pfizer, Albert Bourla, arrêté pour fraude.

Publisher’s rating: Il s’agit d’une fake news déjà dénoncée par différents médias. Albert Bourla a été aperçu sur plusieurs chaînes de télévision le jour de sa supposée arrestation. En outre, le site qui est à l’origine de cette annonce est connu pour diffuser de fausses informations.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of UP police arresting a person who threatened to remove a Durga Puja Pandal in Azamgarh

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a video presented as showing UP police arresting Ansar Ahmed, the man accused of threatening to remove a Durga Puja Pandal in Azamgarh. FACTLY’s review concludes that the video and the Azamgarh case are separate incidents: the footage shows a Noida police operation against a four-person robbery group, not Ahmed’s arrest. The review identifies the men in that group as Anand Verma, Shiv Kumar Verma, Deepak Verma and Bablu Verma, and says they were known as the “screwdriver” gang because they attacked victims with screwdrivers and robbed them. To trace the footage, the review says it performed a reverse image search on screenshots from the video and found an earlier post by ABP News editor Pankaj Jha. His post described four suspects caught by Noida police after an encounter and made no mention of the pandal. FACTLY also reports finding articles about the same Noida incident and a Gautam Buddh Nagar Police Commissionerate post whose photograph showed the accused seen in the viral video. These checks connect the circulated footage to the Noida case rather than the Azamgarh claim. The review separately reports that Azamgarh Police did arrest Ansar Ahmed and register a case after he allegedly waved an illegal firearm at a religious place. It says Ahmed threatened to remove the pandal and kill those who had put it up. Thus, the underlying threat and arrest were reported as real, but the video used to depict them was from a different police incident.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla arrested by the FBI and charged with fraud on 05 November 2021

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post claimed that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla had been arrested by the FBI and charged with fraud on 05 November 2021. FACTLY’s review examined that specific allegation and said it found no credible evidence supporting an arrest or fraud charge. It also noted that an arrest of such a prominent figure would likely have received widespread media coverage, while presenting this as reasoning rather than as a separate documented search of media outlets. The review offered a direct contradiction to the alleged arrest date: it reported that Bourla made television appearances on 05 November 2021, including speaking to CNN about a Pfizer COVID-19 pill and appearing on CNBC. Those appearances place him in public activity on the very day the post said he had been arrested. The excerpt does not provide links or further details for the broadcasts, so it does not establish their exact timing or location. FACTLY also reported that Snopes had debunked the same arrest claim and described the site behind the allegation, Conservative Beaver, as publishing a mix of commentary and conspiratorial hoaxes. Together, the reported lack of credible evidence, Bourla’s television appearances that day, and the cited debunking undermine the arrest story. The supplied review excerpt does not describe additional investigative steps or provide primary FBI records.

Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

Claim: awareness video misunderstood by users that Xerox shops stealing public id proofs

Publisher’s rating: PARTLY FALSE

The review examines a video shared on social media with the allegation that Xerox shops secretly copy people’s identity documents and sell the copies to criminals. It concludes that the clip was not secretly recorded footage of actual document theft: it was a planned awareness video made by professional technicians. The review says professional actress Hamsa Nandini shared it on her official Facebook page and expressly described it as a warning for the public, not real footage. [S1] According to the review, viewers who missed that explanation shared the staged clip as if it documented a real scam. Its conclusion is therefore limited: the video does not prove that the depicted theft occurred, because the video was made for awareness rather than as a recording of an actual incident. The review does not establish whether identity-document theft ever occurs at Xerox shops generally. [S1]

Vishvas NewsCrime & justice

কিস্তান জিন্দাবাদৰ শ্ল‘গান দিয়াৰ বাবে তেওঁলোকক উত্তৰ প্ৰদেশ চৰকাৰে আটক কৰিছে আৰু উত্তম-মধ্যম শোধাইছে, লগতে একাধিক ধাৰাত গোচৰ ৰুজু কৰি আৰক্ষী জিম্মালৈ প্ৰেৰণ কৰা হৈছে৷ জয় মাননীয় মুখ্যমন্ত্ৰী উত্তৰ প্ৰদেশ চৰকাৰ, জয় যোগী বাবা জয়, জয় শ্ৰী ৰাম

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Vishvas NewsCrime & justice

ઉત્તર પ્રદેશ સરકારે તેમને પાકિસ્તાન ઝિંદાબાદના નારા લગાવવા માટે પકડ્યા છે અને તેમને ભારે માર મારવામાં આવ્યો છે અને ઉત્તર પ્રદેશના જય માનનીય મુખ્યમંત્રી જય યોગી બાબા જય શ્રી રામની કલમો હેઠળ કસ્ટડીમાં મોકલવામાં આવ્યા છે

Publisher’s rating: False