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Photo of busy train carriage is from Cairo, not Sweden

A photo of a train carriage where all but one of the women are wearing religious dress has been shared with claims it shows Malmö in Sweden, but it was almost certainly taken in Egypt.  

One post, with more than 1,300 shares, says: “This is not Iran, this is Malmö, Sweden, which is occupied by Islam”. 

However, this photo does not come from Malmö, which has no metro or tram system operating within the city (although a metro line connecting it to Copenhagen in Denmark has been proposed). 

Skanetrafiken, the company responsible for public transport networks in Malmö, confirmed to Full Fact that “it’s not a picture from Malmö”. 

Footage of trains that connect Malmö to other places in Sweden are visibly different to the carriage in the image. The metro


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