Alice Weidel criticizes look after residence outing
Blick has revealed the Swiss residence of AfD politician Alice Weidel. Weidel has criticized the newspaper following threats, while officials on Dufourstrasse deny any wrongdoing.
In a Weltwoche interview, the controversial German politician from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party expresses her indignation at Blick's behavior. "Where do journalists get off showing a photo of my house and writing, "Alice Weidel lives here"?" As a result, she would have received threats and had to call in the police. Weidel finds it particularly offensive that the house is occupied most of the time by her wife and children and that she does not live there most of the time.
At the request of the SonntagsZeitung the Blick sees few problems with its own behavior: "Why should it be a secret in which Swiss municipality a top German politician lives and what the municipality president says about it?" - After all, the place of residence of all Swiss politicians is known.
Weidel already lived in Switzerland until November 2018, but moved away from Biel after newspapers reported on her presence and she was subsequently publicly harassed, antagonized and threatened. In August 2019, CH Media newspapers reported on her return to Switzerland - but the journalist refrained from giving the exact place of residence, even though he knew it. As the SonntagsZeitung writes, other newspapers also had knowledge of Weidel's place of residence, but would have refrained from reporting due to the lack of public interest as well as the experiences from Biel.
Different the View: The newspaper sent a journalist and a photographer, researched the village and published photos of the apartment - it is said to be SonntagsZeitung be "easily recognizable" due to the modern architecture in the community.
Weidel's accusations against the tabloid go even further: On the day of the research, she was called by a farmer's wife who warned her that a photographer was waiting for the school bus with the politician's son inside. "Freely invented," a Ringier spokesperson countered. Pictures of the school bus, the school or the son were neither taken nor planned. Ringier also sees no connection between its own reporting and the threats to which Alice Weidel is being subjected.
