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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

YouturnCrime & justice

கர்நாடகாவில் மரணமடைந்த ஒரு #பிச்சைக்காரரின் பையில் இருந்த தொகை அங்கேயே காவல்துறையினரால் எண்ணிக் கணக்கிடப்பட்டது. அதிகம் ஒன்றுமில்லை…..#ரூ. ஒரு கோடியே எண்பத்தாறு லட்சத்து நாற்பத்தி மூவாயிரத்து முன்னூற்று அறுபத்து நான்கு மட்டும்.(ரூ1,86,43,364/-)!!!

Publisher’s rating: Fake

YouturnCrime & justice

நெதர்லாந்து மிகவும் பாதுகாப்பானது, அங்குள்ள சிறைக்கு வெளிநாட்டில் இருந்து கைதிகளை இறக்குமதி செய்கின்றனர். சமீபத்தில் குற்றவாளிகள் இல்லை என்ற காரணத்தினால் நெதர்லாந்தில் உள்ள 19 சிறைகள் மூடப்பட்டன.

Publisher’s rating: True

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

An der Oberschule «An der Schanze» in Luckau (Brandenburg) soll eine 20-köpfige Gruppe ein Mädchen «ins Gebüsch gezogen, geschlagen und in Gesicht getreten» haben. Das wird in einem Facebook-Beitrag behauptet. Ein 16-Jähriger sei zudem so schwer verletzt worden, dass er im Krankenhaus behandelt werden musste, heißt es weiter.

Publisher’s rating: Unterschiedliche Vorfälle werden hier miteinander vermischt. Eine Attacke auf ein Mädchen in einem Gebüsch hat es laut Polizei nicht gegeben.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of a Hindu girl who was brutally beaten by her Muslim husband

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim attached to the circulating video was that it showed a Hindu girl brutally beaten by her Muslim husband. FACTLY’s review identifies the woman in the video as a Pakistani-Italian woman who experienced domestic violence, rather than as the Hindu girl described in the post. The accompanying social-media caption framed the footage as a warning to Hindu women about relationships with Muslim men, but the review’s identification of the woman does not support that framing. To trace the footage, the review says it used the InVid plugin to obtain keyframes and then performed reverse-image searches. One keyframe led to the same video in a post by Twitter user Aurora Borealis. The review also followed a comment thread to journalist Iqrar ul Hassan Syed’s earlier posts, which identified the woman as Italian of Pakistani origin and named her husband as Ali Jaber Moti. These steps connect the viral footage to reporting about the woman’s case, rather than establishing the religious identity asserted in the caption. The review further reports that Syed’s post included a copy of an FIR filed against the husband at Darakhshan Police Station in Karachi. It says Samaa TV reported that the incident had been brought to light by Syed and had come to the attention of Italian Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo. According to the review, Pontecorvo said the Italian Consulate was handling the matter and had rescued the woman, while her husband remained at large. Taken together, the reported identification and case details show why the video’s caption misidentified the woman and the setting.

台灣事實查核中心Crime & justice

網傳最新犯罪手法，在中油加油時收下廣告名片後不醒人事？

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The warning described a young driver accepting an advertising card from a stranger at a CPC gas station, then becoming dizzy and unconscious. It attributed this to “BURUNDANGA” on the card and claimed the substance could be spread by touch. The review checked whether Taiwan’s police had issued the warning or received reports of such cases, traced the story’s earlier circulation, and consulted drug-related sources and experts about the substance and alleged exposure route. Taiwan’s National Police Agency told the review that the 165 anti-fraud hotline had not sent the message and had received no similar cases. The review also traced the account to a rumor circulating in the United States in May 2008, rather than identifying it as a documented incident in Taiwan. It reports that Snopes found no contemporaneous US news reports of the described event and judged the account untrue; its investigation also found that the claimed effects did not match the substance’s reported properties. The review’s pharmacological evidence further undermines the card-touch explanation. A pharmacist said “BURUNDANGA” is not a formal drug or ingredient name, and that the claim’s description of a strong-smelling substance as odorless was contradictory. Another pharmacist said scopolamine can cause drowsiness in large oral doses, but would not cause instant unconsciousness or act immediately through touching a card. The review therefore concludes that the alleged exposure and effects do not fit the substance described, and that the warning is false.