Social media posts have been sharing an image of a black man holding a Portuguese citizen card, claiming it shows the perpetrator of the ramming incident in Albufeira. This claim is false.
The viral image does not show the driver responsible for the ramming in the Algarve city. This is disinformation that has been circulating online, manipulating a photograph to associate it with the incident.
The article works as fact-checking, analyzing the origin of the image and confronting the claim with available information. The goal is to clarify that the shared photograph has no connection to the ramming in Albufeira.
This type of disinformation is common in contexts of accidents or crimes that generate great public attention, where unrelated images are easily attributed to suspects in order to viralize on social networks.
