Does a viral video show a crowd of passengers streaming off a ferry that has landed in Germany? No, that's not true: It's just a re-post of an old video, with a label mis-identifying the location. Nothing in the post provides verification of the claim that it shows Germany, while an earlier post of the exact same video identifies it as the ferry from Likoni to Mombasa in Kenya. Other photos of the Likoni-Mombasa ferry show the same vessel and loading ramp.
The claim originated in a May 4, 2025 Facebook reel (archived here) on the dot.stein.507 account under the title "Another delivery from Kenya has arrived in Germany". It was posted with several hashtags:
#OMG #germany #sos @deutschland
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook.com screenshot taken by Lead Stories)
The identical video ran March 14, 2025 on a Facebook group called "The View From My Window" (archived here) with the caption:
Likoni ferry crossing, mombasa Kenya...late evening rush..... After a long day in mombasa town either working or shopping or just a tour ..
That post (archived here) looked like this at the time this fact check was written:
In both the March and May versions, note the man in white pointing to his left as he runs:
(Source: Facebook.com screenshots in comparison graphic by Lead Stories, zooming in on the man in white.)
To verify the ferry ramp location, Lead Stories searched for news photos of the Likoni ferry, in case the March 14 version was mis-labelled.
Both The Standard, based in the capital city of Nairobi and The Daily Nation, also based in Nairobi, have run photos of the same ferry at the same ramp with herringbone paving bricks:
The Standard's photo from 2021:
An example from The Nation, with a February, 2025 article:
(Source: TheDailyNation.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Readers can find other Lead Stories fact checks about Kenya here.
