Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Through one Video material The footage allegedly shows an Albanian immigrant in Italy robbing an elderly woman on the street.
This post with this claim was published on X by the English language account "VukFeNix" dated March 13.
Post translated into Albanian:
In Trieste, Italy, a 78-year-old woman was walking when she was brutally attacked by an illegal Albanian immigrant. He stole her gold necklace, a gift her late husband had given her many years earlier.
What is the truth?
After online research conducted by hibrid.info, it was proven that the claim is false. Therefore, the robber does not have Albanian nationality.
Hibrid.info, through the automated program "InVID", has managed to find the article published in the online medium in Italy "ilpiccolo.it". This article clarifies that this person has been identified and that he is Moroccan.
Excerpt from the article published on "ilpiccolo.it", translated into Albanian:
"This is a 23-year-old Moroccan who is wanted throughout Italy: he had left the city and is probably in Lombardy."
"Progress in the investigation of the robber in Via Foscolo who had attacked and robbed an elderly man. The man has been identified: he is a Moroccan, twenty-three years old, 1.94 meters tall."
Analyze:
Through a video shared on the X platform, it is alleged that an illegal Albanian immigrant robbed an elderly woman in Trieste, Italy.
However, after research by the Hibrid.info platform, it was proven that this claim is false. The author is a Moroccan citizen.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this claim as "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
"Disinformation" is defined as information content that contains a "mix" of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful attributes, and that is created and/or distributed with the deliberate intention of causing harm. The motive behind the producers/distributors of disinformation content lies in achieving a political, financial, psychological or social goal.