Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Serbian language channel on Telegram "CORRIDOR"(KORIDOR), published yesterday (September 1) a post with the claim that Kosovo Police (KP) stopped a bus transporting children to school and in that case took two minors out.
This post claims that the Serbian minors were stopped by the police because they were wearing T-shirts with the symbols of the Belgrade football club "Crvena Zvezda" (Red Star) and the team's fan group "Delije".
What is the truth?
After conducting online research, hibrid.info confirmed that the content published on Telegram is manipulated. In reality, the minors were wearing T-shirts of fans of the club "Ylli i Kuq", but with offensive inscriptions, which is not disclosed in the post of the "KORIDOR" channel.
Hibrid.info found the article published by the Serbian language medium "Kosovo-Online.com”, which reported on this case yesterday (September 1).
It states that the regional operations chief for North Mitrovica, Petrit Fejza, spoke to the media outlet "Kosovo-Online.com", where he explained that two minors, aged 15 and 16, were detained yesterday after the Kosovo Police conducted a check on a school bus on the Mitrovica - Zubin Potok route, and the boys were detained due to offensive inscriptions on the T-shirts they were wearing.
"Today, the police entered a school bus traveling between Mitrovica and Zubin Potok, where they checked what kind of T-shirts the children were wearing, and on that occasion, two minors aged 15 and 16 were stopped for wearing T-shirts with offensive inscriptions," said Fejza, adding that the T-shirts of high school students had the inscriptions. "The Chetniks of the North" and "You fight, the North will burn", with motifs of "Red Star" fans.
Analyze:
The Serbian-language Telegram channel "КОРИДОР" published a post claiming that Kosovo Police detained two minors simply because they were wearing T-shirts with the symbols of the "Crvena Zvezda" (Red Star) club.
After verifying the facts, it turns out that this claim is untrue. As explained by the KP, the minors were detained because their T-shirts had offensive inscriptions such as "Chetniks of the North" and "You fight, the North will burn", these T-shirts belonging to the fan group of the Belgrade team "Red Star".
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info assesses this claim as "Manipulation of facts".
Reasoning:
“Factual manipulation” is a rating given to informational content that uses facts known to be accurate but interprets them in a distorted manner. These reports typically use accurate information to draw incorrect conclusions or claims, thereby misleading consumers of media content about the actual meaning of the facts presented.