A video has been circulating on social media that allegedly demonstrates a situation of aggression against a woman using a sharp weapon.. Without indicating a location or when the situation occurred, the publication raised doubts. SIC Verifies.
The video is less than 30 seconds long and shows an individual with a large bladed weapon running after another (without it being clear whether it is two men or a woman and a man). The images culminate in an attempted attack with that weapon, stopped by the screams of those watching everything happening through the window.
“It’s quiet! The police are coming”, we hear in approximately 20 seconds of footage. Then the armed individual fled.
No tweet who shares these images – which you can read about “imagine your daughter walking the dog and this happens” – it is alleged that she is the daughter of a friend who was attacked while walking the dog at night.
“It could have been yours. She was attacked with a sword by a Dr. Importado. And I ask: If it were your daughter, you would also say that these are ‘isolated cases’? That it’s all a sensation? Would you also think that talking about security is an exaggeration?”, reads the message that accompanies the video.
In addition to this, hashtags with the words “insecurity”, “indostão”, “Save Portugal” and the Chega and André Ventura party mentioned.
Will the story be confirmed?
After the publication of this video, the reactions were not long in coming, dividing between those who believe in what is exposed and those who have doubts or accuse the author of the publication. to lie
When in doubt, SIC checks. THE video is real, despite being old; the story not so much. A news from November 2024published no with the same video now shared, it reveals an attack not to a woman, but to a man, 35 years old. This was attacked by two individuals with a machete in Olival Basto, Odivelas.
The suspects They fled after the crime and the victim even suffered minor injuries to the back of the head. and was transported to the hospital. At the time, the The case was still being investigated by the PSP.
SIC Verifica asked the PSP for clarification regarding the conclusion of the investigation, as two years have passed since the case occurred, but did not receive a response as of the date of publication of this article.
The last which will be delivered to the Government by March 31, recorded at least 108 intentional homicides completed in 2025, the highest figure since 2018, the year in which 110 deaths were recorded. As for group crime, rose 7.7%, being linked to hacker and terrorism groups.
Em at the time still Minister of Internal Administration, revealed that “between January and November 2025, overall crime increased by 2.1%”. However, “violent and serious crime will have decreased by 2.6% compared to the previous year”.
SIC verifies that it is…
The video of less than 30 seconds showing an attack with a knife went viral on social media with false allegations. The author of tweet claimed to be the attack on a friend’s daughter who was walking the dogbut SIC confirmed that the The video is old and shows an attack on a 35-year-old man in Olival Basto, Odivelas. The images were used to spread a false narrative about insecurity and immigration.
