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Crime & justice fact checks

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

6,854 published reviews in this topic

NewtralCrime & justice

La policía ha emitido una orden de domiciliación en Madrid para permanecer en casa bajo multa de 1000€

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a WhatsApp document purporting to order residents of the Community of Madrid to stay at home overnight, with a €1,000 fine for disobeying. Newtral reports that the document bore letterhead for the Presidency of the Government and the National Police, and said residents had to remain indoors from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. because of coronavirus. Newtral says the document was false and reports that the National Police denied the supposed order on its Twitter account. The excerpt does not reproduce the police statement or describe further checks of the document, so it does not provide details of that denial beyond reporting that it occurred.

NewtralCrime & justice

El vídeo de un saqueo en un supermercado por el coronavirus

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim was that footage of a crowd rushing into a supermarket showed coronavirus-related shopping. Newtral says it checked that video and found that it had already been shared in 2016. Local reporting identified the scene as taking place at a HiperDino supermarket in Melenara, a coastal locality in Gran Canaria, during Black Friday—not during the coronavirus period described in the claim. The review also notes that similar scenes at this particular store recurred around Black Friday. It points to local coverage from the previous year describing the Black Friday crowds in Melenara. That context supports Newtral’s conclusion that the video showed a recurring sale-period rush rather than the coronavirus-related event asserted in the claim.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

"Die Polizei braucht eure Mithilfe", heißt es in einem Artikel auf der Seite "Eilmeldungen.net". Angeblich werde nach einem fünfjährigen Mädchen gesucht, das in einem Waldgebiet verschwunden ist. Unter dem Artikel ist als Copyright-Hinweis "Eilmeldungen since 2019" (deutsch: Eilmeldungen seit 2019) angegeben.

Publisher’s rating: Das Mädchen ist bereits seit mehr als vier Jahren spurlos verschwunden. Die damals fünf Jahre alte Inga war am 2. Mai 2015 in einem Wald bei Stendal (Sachsen-Anhalt) zum Holzsammeln aufgebrochen und nicht zurückgekehrt.

Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

Claim: Was Priyanka Gandhi arrested in Yes bank case

Publisher’s rating: FALSE HEADLINE

Fact Crescendo examined a TN News 24 headline saying Priyanka Gandhi had been arrested in the Yes Bank case. The review’s central distinction is between an arrest and an ongoing investigation: it says the headline reads as though she had already been arrested, while the information it describes supports only that enforcement officials were taking steps to question her. The review says whether any further action would follow was not yet known. As context for why her name arose in the case, the review says Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor bought a painting from Gandhi for Rs. 2 crore, allegedly due to political pressure. It does not present that transaction as evidence that she had been arrested. Instead, it says the arrest outcome could not be known before the investigation concluded. The review describes the TN News 24 article as a lengthy piece whose thrust was that Gandhi should be arrested, but says its headline misleadingly presented arrest as an accomplished fact. It also notes that the headline was shared on social media, sometimes with a question mark added. Its conclusion is specifically about the headline’s claim of an arrest, not a determination of what action authorities might take later.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of a ‘Hindu’ couple being thrashed by the Police in Pakistan

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video said to show a Hindu couple being beaten by police in Pakistan. FACTLY identifies the people in the footage as Muhammad Idrees and Naseem Bibi, and says the incident took place outside the Multan Development Authority’s office in Multan. The review reports that they were protesting over compensation for land the authority had bought from them—not because of their religion. [S1: “The video shows Muhammad Idrees and Naseem Bibi being thrashed by the Multan police for staging a protest outside the office of Multan Development Authority demanding compensation for the land the authority had bought from them.”] To check the footage, the review says it searched Google using the phrase “Old couple beaten by Police” and found a GeoTV article with a news video showing similar visuals. It reports that GeoTV placed the incident in November 2017 and described the couple as seeking compensation for 500 acres of land bought by the authority. [S1: “When searched on Google with keywords ‘Old couple beaten by Police’, an article of ‘GeoTv’ with a news video that had similar visuals was found.”] [S1: “As per this article, in November 2017, an elderly couple Muhammad Idrees and Naseem Bibi were thrashed by the police outside the office of the Multan Development Authority for demanding compensation for the 500 acres land the authority had bought from them.”] The review’s conclusion is that the couple in the video were not Hindu and that the incident had no communal angle. On the evidence described, the footage documents a protest over land compensation, rather than the claimed religious persecution. [S1: “There is no communal angle to the incident and also, victims are not ‘Hindu’.”]

NewtralCrime & justice

Saqueo en el supermercado de el Boulevard en Vitoria

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim attached to the circulating video was that it showed people looting the El Boulevard supermarket in Vitoria. The review describes the footage as showing people running through a supermarket and taking products, with a caption and location tag identifying Vitoria-Gasteiz. It then distinguishes that label from the footage’s actual provenance: the video was recorded in Santiago de Chile in October 2019, during protests against Chilean president Sebastián Piñera. The review points to details within the clip as evidence for the Chilean origin. In its first seconds, it says, the audio includes “mira, los wevones,” which it identifies as an expression characteristic of the area. Thus, the footage does not establish that a looting incident occurred at the named Vitoria supermarket; the location tag and caption misrepresent where the video was made. The article also addresses separate messages about supermarket shortages in Madrid and Vitoria. It reports that Mercadona’s press department described the previous day’s incidents as limited to some stores and said there was no shortage in Madrid that day. It also relays statements from Mercamadrid, Carrefour and the supermarket association ACES about normal operations, product availability or the absence of expected shortages. Those remarks concern supply conditions, not the identity of the video’s location.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

Unter der Überschrift "Grünen-Politikerin verteidigt Mord" wird in sozialen Netzwerken ein angeblicher Screenshot eines Tweets von "Petra Klamm-Rothberger" verbreitet. Darin heißt es: "In der Heimat des Täters werden vergewaltigte Frauen zum Tode verurteilt. Deshalb musste er sie nach der Vergewaltigung töten. Für diese kulturellen Unterschiede müssen wir Verständnis haben." Neben dem Screenshot ist das Foto einer Frau eingefügt

Publisher’s rating: Der Tweet ist eine Fälschung. Die Politikerin Petra Klamm-Rothberger existiert nicht.

The claim concerns a social-media screenshot attributed to a supposed Green politician named Petra Klamm-Rothberger. The screenshot alleges she defended a killing on cultural grounds and includes a woman’s photo. The review reports that the purported politician does not exist and that the named Twitter account, “@klamm-rothberger-gruene,” also did not exist as of March 6, 2020. These checks undermine the attribution to a real politician or account. [S1]