WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Jacinta Allan has described a knife attack involving her family.
OUR VERDICT
False. The premier was recounting an email she had received.
AAP FACTCHECK - A state premier has not recounted a knife attack involving her family while announcing plans to introduce tougher sentences for youth offenders.
A video in which Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan supposedly recounts the incident has been edited to omit her explanation that she was reading an email sent to her office.
The claim is in a Facebook post featuring a video of Ms Allan speaking at a press conference.
"My family and I became victims of a heinous crime that has left us physically, psychologically and emotionally scarred," the premier says in the clip.
She goes on to talk in more detail about a youth breaking into a garage and a husband being stabbed.
The Facebook post's caption claims that Ms Allan was recounting an attack on her family.
"Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has revealed she and her family were victims of youth crime, saying her husband was stabbed and her son left traumatised, which explains her renewed focus on tackling the state's crime crisis," the post reads.
"Getting a taste of her own medicine."
However, the footage is an edited version of a longer video on the premier's Facebook page, in which she is not speaking about herself but reading an email sent to her.
"I'm going to start by reading an excerpt of one of the many emails I have received as premier about the impact that violent youth crime has on its victims," Ms Allan said at the beginning of the original clip.
The post is captioned: "I've heard firsthand the impact that violent youth crime has on victims".
"Today I shared one of these harrowing stories."
The speech came during a November 12 announcement that Victoria would introduce adult jail sentences for children aged 14 and over who commit serious violent crimes.
The false claim appears to have first circulated in an X post.
The X user has also posted a reply, noting the error and writing "genuine mistake lol," but the incorrect post is still online.
Users responded to the X post as if the incident had happened to the premier.
"Different story when it happens to her," one said.
Another wrote: "Only when it bloody had an impact on you!! How rotten!!"
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