FWIW, this is always done with "suspects" (which refers to anyone who is not convicted, regardless of how obvious it is that he dunnit) in a lot of mainland European countries. Full names are also seldom revealed, you get only the last initial, e.g. Muhammad Z.
It's not as if this will prevent people from figuring out that he is an invader.
One problem tossing up a picture like that is that you have to show the original source of that photo to validate your point. That image could have originally come from a citizen photographer.
Edit: it says AP in the bottom right corner.
FWIW, this is always done with "suspects" (which refers to anyone who is not convicted, regardless of how obvious it is that he dunnit) in a lot of mainland European countries. Full names are also seldom revealed, you get only the last initial, e.g. Muhammad Z.
It's not as if this will prevent people from figuring out that he is an invader.
As someone points out - it wasn’t done for the German anti-lockdown protesters:
https://x.com/markdahler/status/1827466635411628405
One problem tossing up a picture like that is that you have to show the original source of that photo to validate your point. That image could have originally come from a citizen photographer.
Edit: it says AP in the bottom right corner.