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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

Un grupo de CDR ha entrado y ha causado destrozos en casa de un agente en Igualada

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim was that members of the Committees in Defense of the Republic (CDR) had entered a Guardia Civil officer’s home in Igualada, Barcelona, and caused damage. The posts cited in the review included photographs of what appeared to be paint thrown inside a home, including an image that seemed to show a Guardia Civil uniform. The Guardia Civil command in Barcelona denied that the incident had happened either at the Igualada barracks or at an officer’s private home in the town. The review reports that the police identified the photographs as showing a vacant house in nearby Capellades, used to accommodate officers arriving from other assignments. The Guardia Civil described the damage there as vandalism, but said it was not an action by the CDR or politically motivated. It also said the vandalism had occurred several weeks before the recent arrests referenced in the social-media posts. Thus, the photos did not establish the claimed location, perpetrators, or political motive.

FACTLYCrime & justice

9 year old child raped by BJP party men in Kasganj

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post alleged that BJP party members had raped a nine-year-old child in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh. FACTLY’s review identifies the image and incident in the post as relating to a case from the previous year, rather than a new incident being attributed to party members. The review says it searched Google for information about the case and found a Kasganj Police post addressing the claim directly. According to FACTLY, police said the incident shown in the image had happened in 2018, and that the culprit had already been arrested in August of that year. Police also stated that the culprit had no connection with any political party. Those details undercut the post’s implication that the case was a newly reported crime committed by BJP members. The review adds that no other such rape case had been filed in Kasganj. Its conclusion is therefore based on the mismatch between the post’s framing and the police account: an earlier case had been recirculated, and the police account did not support the claimed political connection.

NewtralCrime & justice

Audio que habla de una joven a punto de ser descuartizada durante una cita de Tinder en Pamplona

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a circulating Spanish-language voice message alleging that a young woman was nearly dismembered after meeting a man through Tinder in Pamplona. In the recording, the narrator says the man drugged the woman; after she felt drugged and called police, officers allegedly found the living room covered in plastic and four knives laid out. The review says the audio was also being shared as though the events had happened in other Spanish cities. [S1: “El audio se está moviendo como si los hechos hubieran ocurrido en Pamplona, pero es falso.”; “se encontraron que «el tío había plastificado el salón y colocado cuatro cuchillos ordenaditos«.”] To check whether the reported incident had occurred in Pamplona, Newtral says it contacted the Policía Foral de Navarra, which it identifies as having jurisdiction in this area of Pamplona. The police told the outlet that it had no record or information of such an event in the city. That is direct evidence against the audio’s specific Pamplona setting, although the excerpt does not describe any independent identification of the people in the recording or investigation into where the story originated. [S1: “desde Newtral nos hemos puesto en contacto con la Policía Foral de Navarra, que tiene competencias en esta área en Pamplona, y ha desmentido tener constancia o información alguna de que esto haya ocurrido en la capital navarra.”] The review also notes that the message ends by asking listeners to spread it and that the same voice note was circulating with different Spanish cities attached. This supports the review’s conclusion that the Pamplona attribution was false; the excerpt does not establish that every detail in the story was separately investigated or identify a true location for the alleged events. [S1: “El audio finaliza pidiendo que se difunda.”; “esta nota de voz se está moviendo como si la historia hubiera ocurrido en diferentes ciudades españolas.”]

Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

Claim: Kerala police beaten SFI members for insulting Lord Ayyappa

Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False

The claim concerns a viral video said to show Kerala police beating SFI members because they insulted Lord Ayyappa. Fact Crescendo’s review says the post’s caption presented the people being beaten as SFI members who had insulted Ayyappa, and reports that the video was being widely shared as genuine. The review’s conclusion is that the footage did not show the alleged Kerala incident: it identifies the event as having occurred in Kodagu, Karnataka, and says the people shown were not insulting Ayyappa. The review describes how its investigation proceeded. After examining comments beneath the video, it found commenters saying the claim was false and that the incident had taken place in Karnataka. The reviewer says the News 9 logo in the footage prompted further checking; a Google search for information about the video then led to what the article calls the original news report. According to the review, that report located the incident in Kodagu and described police beating young men and women after a complaint that they had eve-teased people. Thus, the review identifies the footage with a different place and reported cause than the viral caption claimed. The review also says the video had circulated on social media from June 22, but the excerpt does not specify a year for that date. Its stated conclusion is that the video was neither from an incident in Kerala nor footage of people insulting Ayyappa. The supplied excerpt does not name the people shown or provide the underlying news report, so those details cannot be independently assessed from this evidence alone.

NewtralCrime & justice

Una furgoneta blanca roba por La Matanza y zonas de urbanizaciones de Orihuela

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned a Facebook post saying a white van had been seen “por La Matanza y zona de urbanizaciones,” areas in Orihuela, Alicante. Newtral reports that it contacted both the Guardia Civil and the Policía Nacional, and that both denied the alleged incidents had occurred in the locations named by the post. The article adds that the post included the vehicle’s registration number, which helped authorities identify the vehicle and issue their denial. The Guardia Civil command in Alicante told Newtral that officers had already been alerted to the rumor following the DANA that affected the area. Although patrols were reinforced because of the rainfall, the officers said they had not seen the vehicle described in the rumor, despite being warned about it.

Vishvas NewsCrime & justice

पुलिस चौकी में महिला को बेल्ट से पिट रहा है पुलिस वाला।जबकि महिला को पुरुष पुलिसवाले हाथ भी नहीं लगा सकते।नियमानुसार।इस वीडियो को इतना फैलाओ की इन कुत्तों के खिलाफ कार्यवाही हो।

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYCrime & justice

Gorakhpur Police officer warning people to be safe as child kidnapping gangs are moving in the city

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video presented as a Gorakhpur police officer warning residents that child-kidnapping gangs were operating in the city. FACTLY examined the clip’s provenance and compared it with a longer video from the “Gorakhpur News” YouTube channel. The review reports finding a 2-minute-35-second version uploaded on August 25, 2019, while the circulated clip was a shortened portion of that recording.