Fact checking: così la disinformazione ha alimentato le rivolte anti-migranti a Torre Pacheco

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Fact checking: così la disinformazione ha alimentato le rivolte anti-migranti a Torre Pacheco  La città di Torre Pacheco è stata scossa da un'aggressione a un pensionato locale e dai conseguenti violenti disordini anti-migranti. La disinformazione ha infiammato le tensioni  ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2025/07/18/fact-checking-cosi-la-disinformazione-ha-alimentato-le-rivolte-anti-migranti-a-torre-pache  Abbonati, euronews è disponibile in 12 lingue.

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00:00How disinformation fuelled anti-migrant unrest in Spain

00:04Last week, a Spanish pensioner was attacked while taking his morning walk in the town of Torre Pacheco in Murcia.

00:14These images are real and show the gravity of the pensioner's injuries as a result of the attack.

00:19But this video, which has been circulating widely online, claiming to show the attack,

00:24is unrelated as confirmed by both the victim and the local authorities.

00:28It's since emerged that the video shows a separate attack on this man from Almería,

00:33a city some 200 kilometers away from Torre Pacheco.

00:39Here, the man holds up items of clothing that correspond to those seen in the video.

00:45Since the attack, tensions have spilt over into violent anti-migrant riots.

00:51Residents of foreign origin, including minors, have been injured by violent groups roaming the streets.

00:58At least 14 arrests have been made.

01:01Online disinformation has fuelled this violence.

01:04For example, users have claimed this video shows migrants attacking another elderly man in the town,

01:10but this in fact happened in Mexico in 2021.

01:14And this video doesn't show people throwing objects at police in the town as they're being arrested.

01:20It's a separate, unrelated incident in another Spanish province.

01:23This fake document claims to show the local authority convening a protest

01:28against the situation of insecurity in the municipality after the attack,

01:34describing migration as the common denominator of criminal incidents.

01:39But this document is fake.

01:41The local authority has denied it ever existed.

01:44There was a congregation against recent criminal acts, as seen in this poster,

01:49but there was no mention of migration as being a common denominator in those incidents.

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