Nef's lawyers file suit against Blick

 After his lawyers announced in a communiqué on Thursday morning that they had filed a first lawsuit against a media outlet for violation of personality rights, army chief Roland Nef announced to the media in the afternoon that the lawsuit was directed against Blick. The communiqué issued by Nef's lawyers on Thursday morning stated that the reporting by some media amounted to a smear campaign. "Some media are spreading truths, half-truths and untruths, the mixing and dissemination of which, regardless of their truthfulness, is personally damaging", the statement from the lawyers' office reads.
According to the investigations by the public prosecutor's office, there was no public interest in continuing the criminal proceedings against Roland Nef. Army chief Roland Nef neither bought silence nor paid for a declaration of disinterest, the lawyers emphasize
continued. "These insinuations insult his former partner and defame him in an untenable way." Making a payment is not an acknowledgement of guilt.
An "admission of mistakes in the relationship" does not make a person unacceptable, but rather signals the acceptance of responsibility for one's own part in the conflict "and represents a mature form of conflict resolution", Nef's legal representatives write in the communiqué.