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Crime & justice fact checks

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

6,831 published reviews in this topic

dpaCrime & justice

Deze twee foto's tonen Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Publisher’s rating: De twee foto's tonen twee verschillende personen. De linkerfoto in de post komt van een X-gebruiker die zich voor de grap voordeed als de dader, terwijl de rechterfoto volgens Amerikaanse media wel degelijk Thomas Matthew Crooks toont.

Factcrescendo Sri LankaCrime & justice

Trump’s Shooter(Video) !!

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says the person in the video was an X user who later said it was posted as a joke, not Thomas Crooks. It also reports that Crooks was identified as the shooter and was fatally shot at the scene by a Secret Service sniper.

PA MediaCrime & justice

MPs Jo Cox and Sir David Amess were murdered by far-right extremists.

Publisher’s rating: One of the two murdered MPs, Jo Cox, was murdered by someone who held far-right views. However the killer of the other MP, Sir David Amess, was a supporter of the Islamic State terror group.

Related reporting says Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 by a “right-wing extremist” and Sir David Amess was murdered by an “Islamist extremist” in 2021. This supports the publisher’s distinction, not the claim that both were murdered by far-right extremists.

dpaCrime & justice

De dader achter de aanslag op Trump heet Mark Violet.

Publisher’s rating: De dader die Trump neerschoot werd geïdentificeerd als Thomas Matthew Crooks. 'Mark Violets' of Marco Violi werd online foutief aangeduid als de schutter.

The review says the person who shot Trump was identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, not Mark Violet. It explains that online posts wrongly named Marco Violi, an Italian man, as the shooter.

dpaCrime & justice

De dader van de aanslag op Trump heet Thomas Matthew Crooks. Deze video toont hem.

Publisher’s rating: De beelden die circuleren tonen niet Thomas Matthew Crooks, maar een X-gebruiker die zich voor de grap voordeed als de man. Hij verwijderde de berichten al snel, maar de grap haalde de realiteit in.

The video does not show Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Trump rally shooter. The review identifies the person in the footage as an X user who pretended to be the shooter as a joke.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Photo of the social media user who was arrested by Delhi police for making lewd comments on Smriti Singh, wife of late Captain Anshuman Singh

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The photo shows Mohd Kasim, arrested on 02 July 2024 in connection with a snatching case, not the person accused of making lewd comments about Smriti Singh. The review says Kasim’s video was uploaded before the 05 July awards event, when the comments were made, so the arrest photo was unrelated to the controversy.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCrime & justice

Angeblich habe ein Geflüchteter in einer Filiale der Supermarktkette Netto in der sächsischen Kleinstadt Reichenbach in der Oberlausitz einer Kassiererin mit einer Schere in den Hals gestochen.

Publisher’s rating: Die sächsische Polizei bezeichnete schon 2018 den Fall als erfundene Geschichte. Es gab damals lediglich den Diebstahl einer Schere, allerdings in Reichenbach im sächsischen Vogtland. Die Polizeidirektion Görlitz führte nach eigenen Angaben in den vergangenen Tagen keinen derartigen Einsatz durch.