![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) *About ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # No shots fired Saturday in Hodimont, but sounds of firecrackers 20.4.2021, 1:54 p.m. (CEST) The rumor spread quickly on social networks. Some Internet users warned on Saturday April 17, 2021 against “attacks fire” in Hodimont (Verviers). They ordered their peers not to surrender there “for the moment” (Saturday 17, Editor’s note). (Archived publication) EVALUATION: There were no shots fired on Saturday April 17, 2021 at Hodimont, local police Zone Vesdre confirms to the dpa. Noises of Firecrackers may have caused confusion. This is a rumor based on fears of “settling of scores”. FACTS: After a death in Droixhe, following a “settling of scores between gangs rivals", Friday April 16, 2021, the authorities feared that "others clashes” take place on Saturday April 17, 2021 in Hodimont (Verviers). It is this fear which is at the origin of the rumor which spread on the social networks on Saturday and which warned of gunshots. Some people claimed that the settling of scores was underway and that victims were to be deplored. This is not the case. The local police (Vesdre police zone), contacted by the dpa agency, explains by telephone: “There were indeed sounds of detonation on Saturday at Hodimont. But they were firecrackers. There was no sound of gunfire.” The dreaded settling of scores – which did not take place on Saturday April 17, 2021 – was also the subject of an article in the Sudpresse group editions. An Internet user in Hodimont also denied the publication on Saturday: “I I’m there, there’s nothing (yet),” he wrote. Another protests: “The pseudo gunshots in Hodimont are hoax. More people ill-intentioned people who want to sow trouble and scare people. How we can be that bad.” \--- Links: Facebook post: (archived: and Facebook Post II: (archived: Comments that amplify the rumor: (archived: Article on events in Droixhe: bullets-found-3km-what-st-happened-liege-video (archived: RTL, on the shooting of Friday 04.16.2021: Hodimont police station: (archived: Internet user denial: (archived: Internet user denial II: (archived: Sudpresse article “Saturday’s meeting in Hodimont did not take place”: rendez-vous-de-samedi-hodimont-na-pas-eu-lieu (archived: \--- Contact the dpa fact-checking team: factcheck- belgium@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
Gunshots in Hodimont Saturday April 17 2021