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Crime & justice fact checks

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

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YouturnCrime & justice

யாராவது உங்கள் தெருவில் விட்டு வாசலில் சாய்பாபா அல்லது ஹரே ராமா ஹரே கிருஷ்ணா படம் வைத்து சிறிய சைக்கிளில் பாட்டு பாடிக் கொண்டு ஆண், பெண் இருவர் வந்து திருநீறு கொடுத்தால் உடனடியாக விரட்டுங்கள் அல்லது போலீசில் பிடித்துக் கொடுங்கள். கடவுளைக் காண்பித்து திருநீறில் மயக்கபொருள் கலந்து கொடுத்து நம் வீட்டை கொள்ளையடித்து, மார்வாடிகளிடம் கொண்டு சேர்க்க பஜ்ரங் தல் எனும் வடநாட்டு தீவிரவாத அமைப்பினால் அனுப்பி வைக்கப்பட்டவர்கள். வீட்டில் உள்ளவர்கள் அன்பர்கள், நண்பர்கள் அனைவர்க்கும் வந்தபடியே பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளுங்கள். சென்னை வேளச்சேரியில் கடந்த வாரம் 5 வீடுகளில் இந்த கும்பல் கொள்ளையடித்து சென்றுள்ளது. இப்படிக்கு : தமிழ்நாடு காவல்துறை.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACEBOOK POSTCrime & justice

A Muslim woman in Hijab was brutally attacked in India.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review says the video shows an incident in Morocco, not India, and dates it to 2015. It reports that a young woman was pelted with water, eggs and flour in Casablanca; a 2015 account included a statement that the boys were like her brothers, but questioned whether she gave it willingly.

台灣事實查核中心Crime & justice

關西高速公路今天開始,傍晚每天會有警察臨檢喔~高速公路酒測罰很重喔~還有後座乘客未繫安全帶罰款一人三千,兩人6000元,請告訴家人要注意!

Publisher’s rating: 部分錯誤

The message claimed that police would begin checking drivers every evening at the “Guanxi” highway location and that two rear-seat passengers without seat belts would incur a total fine of NT$6,000. The review says “Guanxi Highway” refers to the Guanxi Interchange on National Freeway No. 3. It consulted Lin Cheng-chia, a traffic-group leader with the National Highway Police Bureau’s Sixth Police Brigade, about enforcement there. Lin said police had conducted two drunk-driving checkpoints and four seat-belt checkpoints at the interchange between June 1 and July 3. But he said checks were not routinely held at a fixed location, and each deployment lasted about three to four hours—not all day. The reported checks therefore confirm that enforcement occurred at Guanxi, but do not support the message’s assertion of daily evening checks. The fine claim also needs qualification. The review cites the Highway Traffic Management and Penalty Act and a penalty schedule: for a private passenger car on a highway or expressway, one unbelted driver or passenger who pays within the stated period is fined NT$3,000; two or more are fined NT$4,500, not NT$6,000. The NT$6,000 figure applies to a different situation: two or more unbelted passengers in a commercial bus, taxi, or rental vehicle with a driver, where the driver is fined. If that driver has fulfilled the duty to inform passengers, the passengers are fined NT$3,000 each.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Muslim woman arrested in Australia for wearing burqa

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined a post claiming that a photograph showed an Australian police officer arresting a woman for wearing a burqa. Its review says a reverse-image search using Yandex found a newspaper article with the same image. According to the review, the photograph was taken in Spain in 2015, when police arrested an 18-year-old Moroccan woman over alleged recruitment of women to join ISIS. That account gives a different place and reason for the arrest than the post claims: the woman was not arrested in Australia for wearing a burqa. The review describes the arrest as connected to alleged terrorist activities, and its conclusion is that the claim attached to the photograph is false.

NewtralCrime & justice

Vídeo de la agresión a una menor en Canet de Mar

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The video was circulated with a message claiming that it showed a Moroccan unaccompanied minor sexually assaulting a girl in Canet de Mar. Newtral reports that the footage instead depicts a sexual assault in Dalian, in China’s Liaoning province, and is unrelated to the Canet de Mar incident. The review distinguishes the video from a real local case: police did arrest two minors in June 2019 over an alleged sexual assault, but the review says that event was not what the images showed. To check the video’s provenance, the review describes reverse-image searches of frames from the viral clip. Those searches returned Chinese media publications showing the same footage; the review cites the English-language People’s China Daily as reporting that the assault took place on a street in Dalian. It also describes a TinEye search indicating that the video began circulating on the Chinese social network Weibo on 24 June 2019. That timeline further separates the footage from the Canet de Mar assault referenced in the false message: the review says the local incident occurred in the early hours of 29 June, five days after the footage began circulating on Weibo. The evidence presented therefore identifies a different location and earlier circulation history for the video, rather than establishing that it depicts the local incident.