Evidence fabrication is the creation of fake evidence, or the falsification of real evidence, to incriminate a target.
Notable examples of evidence fabrication include:
- Lying in a police report.
- Planting incriminating materials. For example, police in Baltimore (United States) were unaware that their body cameras continued to record after being turned off and recorded themselves planting drugs in a suspect's bag.
Depending on the context, evidence fabrication can be common or rare.
Used in tactics: Incrimination
Mitigations
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Physical intrusion detection | An adversary often needs to covertly enter a space to plant evidence in the space. You can use physical intrusion detection to detect such a covert entry. |
Used in repressive operations
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| December 8 case | Investigators mistranscribed or distorted conversations obtained through phone interception or covert audio surveillance devices to make them look suspicious. For example, the term “lunettes balistiques” (ballistic goggles) used in a conversation was transcribed as “gilets balistiques” (ballistic vests) by intelligence services, and became “gilets explosifs” (explosive vests) in a report by the prosecutors in charge of the case[1]. |
| Prometeo | Investigators distorted conversations obtained through phone interception to make them look suspicious[2]. For example, during a phone conversation involving one of the defendants, the phrase “tutta questa tensione sociale prima o poi scoppierà” (“all this social tension will, sooner or later, explode”) was said, which was only partially transcribed in the investigation files as “prima o poi scoppierà” (“will, sooner or later, explode”). |