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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

Le tueur en Norvège s'appelle Rainer Winklarson.

Publisher’s rating: Rainer Winklarson n'est pas l'auteur du massacre qui a été perpétré le 13 octobre à Kongsberg, dans le sud-est de la Norvège. Il n'existe pas! Le présumé coupable s'appelle Espen Andersen Brathen.

The claim identifies “Rainer Winklarson” as the attacker in the October 13, 2021, Kongsberg killings. The review says that name arose from widely repeated social-media claims, but distinguishes the alleged attacker from German video blogger Rainer Winkler, who used the name “Drachenlord.” It reports that older posts showed Winkler shooting a bow, a detail that may have helped associate him with the attack, but says his surname was altered in the circulating claim. The review’s account of the attack identifies the alleged perpetrator as Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish man. It says Norwegian police announced that identification and reports that Brathen admitted in questioning to carrying out the attack, which involved a bow and arrows. The review also notes that a Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, published a photograph of Brathen, and says the two men did not resemble one another. The account describes five people killed and three injured in Kongsberg, a town about 80 kilometres from Oslo. It further reports that Brathen had been flagged for radicalisation and that authorities had not ruled out mental-health issues. These details provide context about the alleged attacker; the review does not present them as proof that the social-media name referred to him.

YouturnCrime & justice

தந்தை பெரியார் குறித்து அவதூறு – யூடியூர் கைது ! சென்னையில் தந்தை பெரியார் குறித்து சமூக வலைத்தளங்களில் இழிவாக பேசியதாக எழுந்த புகாரில் ழகரம் வாய்ஸ் யூடியூப் சேனலை நடத்தி வந்த சீதையின் மைந்தன் என்கிற தட்சிணாமூர்த்தி கைது

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

YouturnCrime & justice

ஹெச்.ராஜா தலைமறைவு. அறநிலையத்துறை அதிகாரிகளை அவதூறாக பேசிய வழக்கில் நேற்று ஸ்ரீவில்லிப்புத்தூர் நீதிமன்றம் பிடிவாரண்ட் பிறப்பித்த நிலையில் எச்.ராஜா தலைமறைவு என தகவல் வெளியாகியுள்ளது.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Vera FilesCrime & justice

Walang hurisdiksyon ang ICC kay Pangulong Duterte hinggil sa umano'y mga pang-aabuso sa karapatang pantao kaugnay ng kanyang giyera laban sa droga.

Publisher’s rating: Hindi totoo

Related reporting published in 2026 describes the ICC’s decisions on Duterte’s challenge to its jurisdiction. GMA News reported that the Appeals Chamber rejected his appeal and confirmed the earlier decision rejecting his jurisdictional objection. The report says the Pre-Trial Chamber had found that the ICC had jurisdiction over alleged crimes against humanity connected to Duterte’s drug-war campaign. This later reporting bears directly on the claim that the ICC had no jurisdiction: it records that the challenge was rejected and that the earlier jurisdiction finding was confirmed. It does not describe the original fact-check’s investigation or establish what evidence was available when the claim was assessed in 2021.

Vera FilesCrime & justice

The ICC has no jurisdiction over President Rodrigo Duterte regarding alleged human rights abuses related to his war on drugs.

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerns whether the International Criminal Court could exercise jurisdiction over Rodrigo Duterte for alleged abuses linked to his anti-drug campaign after the Philippines withdrew from the court. The supplied material contains no Vera Files review text, so this assessment relies on related reporting rather than attributing findings or checking methods to Vera Files. The related reports contradict the claim. One reports that the ICC maintained jurisdiction over crimes committed while the Philippines was still a member, despite Duterte’s 2019 withdrawal. Another says the court ruled it retained jurisdiction over alleged crimes in the Philippines between 2011 and 2019; it also notes that Duterte’s defence appealed that ruling and a decision was still pending in the report. The reporting describes charges alleging Duterte’s involvement in murders connected to the anti-drug campaign, while making clear that these are allegations and that Duterte denies the charges.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Recent video of a mob pelting stones on police in Jaipur, Rajasthan

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim was that a circulating video showed a recent mob pelting police in Jaipur, Rajasthan. FACTLY’s review identifies the footage as depicting an older incident in Lal Chowk, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, and concludes it had nothing to do with Rajasthan. The investigation describes several checks supporting that identification, rather than relying only on the video’s social-media caption. For the video’s history, the review reports that reverse image searches of screenshots found videos with similar visuals on social media dating back to at least 2017. It also describes matching shop signs visible in the footage—“Western Hosiery” and “Sathoo Furnishings”—to images and location descriptions for adjacent shops in Lal Chowk, Anantnag. A “Vasco” sign beside a BATA showroom provided another location clue: the review says a Just Dial listing placed the Vasco Pasco shoe centre in Lal Chowk. The review also reports that India Today’s fact-check team spoke with Western Hosiery shop owner Khalid Sathoo. He said he was present during the stone-pelting incident and recalled a police officer taking shelter in his shop. Together, the older online appearances, local storefront clues and shop owner’s account support the conclusion that the footage was from Anantnag, not a recent event in Jaipur.