Photo: DPAThe interior ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has warned that a letter being shared on social media which appears to show them ordering police to cover up refugee crimes is in fact fake. A copy of the letter first appeared on social media on Tuesday evening under the title “police should silence crimes committed by migrants,” Spiegel reports. It also appeared to tell officers not to even register crimes committed by “refugees, asylum seekers or people with a migrant background.” It further warned officers who did not comply that they faced being fired from the force. “This nasty fake shows us once again how brazenly some people are trying to spread hate against foreigners,” Reul said on Wednesday. He asked the people of NRW “not to fall for such propaganda and to look critically at apparent news which is spread on social media.”Police are now investigating who created the letter.

Source: The Local August 16, 2017 14:03 UTC