A TikTok account named "ilmih67" has published a video with the caption "Serbian police mistreat Albanians."
The video footage shows a person dressed in police clothing exerting physical violence against another person in civilian clothes.
Hibrid.info has verified and confirmed that the video shows a police officer in Serbia physically attacking a young man from the Roma community, which contradicts the claim made by the author of the video material on TikTok.
Link to the video material published by "ilmih67":
Hibrid.info conducted research through the automated online program "InVID" and found that the video published on TikTok, by the account "ilmih67", depicts an event that occurred in 2007, in Serbia, where a Serbian police officer is shown hitting a member of the Roma community, named Danijel Stojanović, 17 years old.
Hibrid.info, after searching through online search engines, found only one article in Turkish, with the image taken from the video in question (see here).
Hibrid.info has also found articles in Serbian, in which the then Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivica Dacic, apologized to the young man from the Roma community for the incident (see here and here).
While the Amnesty International report on Serbia for 2012 also mentions the case in question (see here).
Analyze:
A TikTok account has published a video showing a Serbian police officer abusing a young man from the Roma community.
The account in question, with a caption, claimed that the video material depicts violence against Albanians.
After fact-checking analysis conducted by hibrid.info, this article is rated as "misinformation".
Reasoning:
Disinformation – A “Disinformation” rating is given to media reporting that contains a “mix” of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful content. This rating will also address reports that have incorrect attributions or headlines that do not reflect the text in terms of accuracy of information.