00:00C'est le moment juste avant un car ploué dans le crowd
00:12lors de Liverpool Football Club's Premier League victory parade last Monday.
00:16Dans juste trois heures, police ont dit qu'un 53-year-old white British man
00:21a été arrêté en un attempt à stamp out speculation.
00:25Despite this, false claims about the nature of the attack and the identity of the driver
00:31spread rapidly online.
00:33Posts shared later that evening on social media claimed to show another man who was purportedly
00:39the real driver of the vehicle.
00:41The claims were amplified across platforms and have been viewed millions of times.
00:46But this is false.
00:48Merseyside Police have confirmed that the man in this photo isn't the suspect.
00:53The screenshot of the man matches this TikTok video shared from the Liverpool parade.
00:59He can be seen joking around, entering the police car and wearing a policeman's hat.
01:04TikTok users point out in the comments that he's being falsely signalled as the driver
01:09in other social media posts.
01:12Another video from the scene of the incident shows a man struggling with police on the ground.
01:17This Facebook post falsely claims that this man is the 53-year-old detained by police
01:23and that the driver of the vehicle is a different person, suggesting the suspect is still at large.
01:29Merseyside Police have also refuted these claims, saying just one man was arrested
01:35and that he isn't the man shown in this video.
01:39These false claims have spread virally, fueling speculation and confusion.
01:44Authorities say they communicated quickly in order to fill the information void with the truth
01:50and to debunk these unfounded theories.
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