TCS refrains from pressing charges against Girod

The Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) is withdrawing its criminal proceedings against the Green Party National Councillor Bastien Girod from Zurich. A TCS spokesperson confirmed a report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. TCS spokesman Stephan Müller told SDA that the company did not want to provide a platform for the so-called "Stop Off-Roader Initiative" of the young Greens. The TCS had accused Girod of infringing copyrights with a campaign. The campaign parodies a series of TCS advertisements from 2004 and 2005 in which young people pose on posters with their sleeves rolled up and the TCS logo on their upper right arm. Girod had himself depicted in a similar pose, but with a crossed-out off-roader on his upper arm (see
). The TCS therefore began a legal dispute that involved several instances. Finally, the Zurich public prosecutor requested that Girod's parliamentary immunity be lifted. The young politician then asked the TCS to withdraw the charges, which is now to be done.