Buchenwald Foundation accuses SF of disregarding filming ban
The SVP National Councillor himself and Swiss Television (SF) are now also being criticized in connection with the dispute between Federal President Pascal Couchepin and Christoph Mörgeli. According to the Buchenwald Foundation, SF did not have permission to film an interview with Mörgeli in the former Buchenwald concentration camp.
The SVP National Councillor himself and Swiss Television (SF) are now also being criticized in connection with the dispute between Federal President Pascal Couchepin and Christoph Mörgeli. SF did not have permission to film an interview with Mörgeli in the former Buchenwald concentration camp, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation criticized on Friday. In a communiqué, the foundation writes that the former concentration camp was "quite obviously intended to be functionalized in the interests of Mr Mörgeli for a party-political debate within Switzerland".
According to the foundation, an SF employee gave the impression that he accepted the filming ban when he was informed that filming was not permitted.
However, Volkhard Knigge, director of the foundation, is quoted as saying that a television crew and a politician had disregarded the foundation's rules for protecting the dignity of the site and the victims in an unprecedented manner.
Knigge called on SF to make it clear in a prominent place that the filming was carried out against the expressly stated will of the foundation.
According to the foundation, an SF employee gave the impression that he accepted the filming ban when he was informed that filming was not permitted.
However, Volkhard Knigge, director of the foundation, is quoted as saying that a television crew and a politician had disregarded the foundation's rules for protecting the dignity of the site and the victims in an unprecedented manner.
Knigge called on SF to make it clear in a prominent place that the filming was carried out against the expressly stated will of the foundation.
