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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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Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

In Hamburg sind Messerangriffe an der Tagesordnung. Ist das ein neues Phänomen? Der Verfasser eines Online-Artikels meint ja: Die Messerkriminalität stelle zunehmend ein Problem dar, heißt es unter Berufung auf einen Artikel bei «Bild.de».

Publisher’s rating: Ein Anstieg von Messerangriffen kann nicht belegt werden.

The claim concerns whether knife attacks had become a growing problem in Hamburg, as an online article reportedly asserted while citing Bild.de. The dpa review says Hamburg police had only begun recording incidents involving knives in early 2019. Bild.de, as quoted in the review, reported that the police considered the data meaningful only after a full year of collection. On that basis, the available Hamburg records did not yet establish a trend: the measurement period was incomplete. [S1]