Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg
Police investigated after videos of the alleged assault were shared on social media.
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What this story says
- Ten children and adolescents, aged nine to 15, are accused of torturing a 14-year-old boy for hours in Neubrandenburg.
- The alleged assault involved beatings, kicks, and the infliction of burns, according to police.
- Police became aware of the incident after videos of the alleged torture were shared on social media.
- A similar incident involving three minors and a 12-year-old occurred in Neubrandenburg two weeks prior, though police state there is no connection.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 8 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 10 of the 18 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
42/100
Craft
57/100
Hype
41/100
18 sources · methodology
Thin on the left so far
Only 1 of the 8 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
Ten children and adolescents, aged between nine and 15, are accused of torturing a 14-year-old boy for hours in Neubrandenburg. Police stated the alleged perpetrators used beatings, kicks, and objects to injure the victim, and also inflicted burns. The incident came to the attention of authorities through videos shared on social media platforms. Charges filed against the accused include dangerous bodily injury, coercion, insult, and violation of personal life.
The police have confirmed that the accused minors were identified due to the videos of the alleged assault. It was also reported that children under the age of 14 are not considered criminally responsible. Authorities stated that the groups involved in this incident and a similar case two weeks prior were known to police, though they maintain no connection exists between the two events.
Disagreement on severity of injuries
The Kurier and wz.de reports state the perpetrators allegedly inflicted injuries with beatings, kicks, and objects, and also inflicted burns. The digest reports for focus.de and Welt also mention beatings, kicks, and burns. In contrast, the digest for Frankfurter Allgemeine states the ten children and young people hurt a boy with beatings, kicks and objects. The digest for ndr.de states they are suspected of dangerous bodily injury and mistreated a 14-year-old boy. The digest for Tichys Einblick states they are said to have brutally kicked and beaten him, and that beat objects were also used.
What the coverage left out
None of the left-rated reports covered this story. The digests from the right-rated outlets and the centre-rated outlet did not mention the specific ages of the perpetrators beyond stating they were minors, nor did they detail the charges filed by police, such as coercion, insult, and violation of personal life.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 8 times, most recently on 14 Sept 2026, 16:45, and will add the sides that appear.
How other outlets pictured it
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How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
1 rated outlet
We have not written our reading of the left coverage of this story. The left-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.
Centre
1 rated outlet
- The centre-rated report from wz.de led with the accusation that ten children and adolescents tortured a 14-year-old boy for hours in Neubrandenburg. It stated that police became aware of the incident through videos on social media. The report detailed the alleged injuries, including beatings, kicks, and burns, and listed the charges filed by police. It also mentioned a similar incident two weeks prior and noted that both groups were known to police.
Right
6 rated outlets
- Right-rated reports from Kurier, n-tv, Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and focus.de all highlighted the alleged torture of a 14-year-old boy by ten children and adolescents in Neubrandenburg. The Kurier and Welt full reports, along with the digests from n-tv, focus.de, and Frankfurter Allgemeine, specified that the perpetrators used beatings, kicks, and objects, and inflicted burns. The Kurier report also noted that the police became aware of the incident through videos shared on social media. All five right-rated outlets mentioned the similar incident that occurred two weeks earlier in Neubrandenburg.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg?
- Of the 8 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 13% are rated left, 12% are rated centre, 75% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 18. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 8 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg biased?
- Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg is one event reported by 18 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Ten minors accused of torturing 14-year-old in Neubrandenburg?
- 18 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- What happened in Neubrandenburg?
- Ten children and adolescents, aged between nine and 15, are accused of torturing a 14-year-old boy for hours. The alleged assault involved beatings, kicks, and burns. Police became aware of the incident through videos shared on social media.
- What injuries did the victim sustain?
- According to police reports, the 14-year-old victim was allegedly injured through beatings, kicks, and the use of objects. The reports also state that burns were inflicted on the victim.
- How did the police become aware of the incident?
- The police were alerted to the alleged torture after videos of the incident were shared on social media platforms. These videos allowed authorities to identify the alleged perpetrators.
- Was there a similar incident recently?
- Yes, police reported a similar case in Neubrandenburg two weeks prior, involving three minors and a 12-year-old victim. However, authorities stated there is no connection between the two incidents, although both groups involved were known to police.
Read it at the source
18 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
1Centre
1Right
6- Perpetrators Film Cruel Deed: Children's Gang Tortures 14-Year-Olds with Punches and Kicks (opens Bild in a new tab)
- Second Case Within Two Weeks: Children Torment Fourteen-Year-Olds in Neubrandenburg (opens n-tv in a new tab)
- Neubrandenburg: Beats, Kicks, Burns – Ten Children and Adolescents Torment 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens Welt in a new tab)
- Minors Torturing Boys in Neubrandenburg Apparently for Hours (opens Frankfurter Allgemeine in a new tab)
Frankfurter Allgemeine — is Frankfurter Allgemeine biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Minors Tortured 14-Year-Olds and Shared Videos on Social Media (opens Kurier in a new tab)
- Ten Minors Torture 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens focus.de in a new tab)
Not rated
10- Migrants Gang Abused 14-Year-Olds (opens COMPACT in a new tab)
- Video of Violence From Neubrandenburg: Young Tormented by Peers (opens ndr.de in a new tab)
- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens mainwelle.de in a new tab)
mainwelle.de — is mainwelle.de biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Neubrandenburg: Children and Adolescents Torture 14-Year-Olds for Hours and Film the Act (opens Tichys Einblick in a new tab)
Tichys Einblick — is Tichys Einblick biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens bbv-net.de in a new tab)
bbv-net.de — is bbv-net.de biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens RN in a new tab)
- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens nordbayern.de in a new tab)
nordbayern.de — is nordbayern.de biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens onetz.de in a new tab)
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- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens Badische Neueste Nachrichten in a new tab)
Badische Neueste Nachrichten — is Badische Neueste Nachrichten biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Police: Minors Torturing 14-Year-Olds for Hours (opens inFranken.de in a new tab)
inFranken.de — is inFranken.de biased? Our profile of this outlet
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