A manipulated image, a false description intended to create anti-migrant sentiment: the fake news from August 2019 is finished. But what exactly was it about?

A man in Erfurt is said to have had both his hands chopped off by migrants, a now-deleted posting on Facebook claimed.

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“Prager Str..in Erfurt yesterday evening/night..
Merkel's new children chop off both hands of Germans..
And nothing in the news or anything else, everything is hushed up!!!!!
It’s about time we did something about it..
It can happen to anyone, including you do-gooders and station gossips!!!!”

Quarrel between mother and son

As the Erfurt police wrote in a press release , it was a physical altercation between a mother and her adult son that occurred on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, shortly before midnight in the hallway of an apartment building on Prager Strasse in Erfurt.
As part of this physical argument, the glass part of a room door was broken. The 35-year-old son was injured by the broken glass. He then left the apartment bleeding profusely and went into the hallway where an uninvolved person looked after him. The above picture was created in this context.

The picture does not show the victim of an attack by migrants; rather, the police are now investigating the man for several offenses to the detriment of his mother.

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Image appears to have been manipulated

As the Thuringia police added on Facebook, the image was also manipulated by retouching the hands of the victim lying on the ground.

https://www.facebook.com/Polizei.Thueringen/photos/a.823752711047429/2368340649921953/?type=3&theater

It is currently unknown whether the creator of the posting is also being investigated for gross mischief.


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