There is a live criminal investigation into the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
There isn’t. A crime reference number was created after campaigners visited a London police station in December 2021. The Metropolitan Police has confirmed there is no investigation.
A video posted on Facebook shows a campaigner demanding the police shut down Covid-19 vaccine centres and claiming there is a “live criminal investigation” into the Covid-19 vaccine programme. She also claims that vaccines have led to “catastrophic death and injury figures” and police have the immediate power to “seize” vaccines as “evidence” of criminality.
The video, filmed at Market Harborough police station in Leicestershire, records a conversation between a constable and a member of the public making the complaint about the vaccine programme. Leicestershire police confirmed to Full Fact that the video is genuine. However, many of the claims made in the video are not true.
During the video, the campaigner claims that Covid-19 vaccinations are “under criminal investigation”.
We’ve seen lots of examples of this false claim recently circulating on social media, including recordings of phone calls to police stations.
However, there hasn’t been and still is no criminal investigation.
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