Flop of the week: Press Council against image publication
According to the president of the Press Council, newspapers should not publish photos in which the faces of hooligans are clearly recognizable.
Such an approach is not part of the press's remit. This was triggered by a picture of a suspected FCZ hooligan published this week in Blick. He is said to have thrown petards into the GC fan sector during the Zurich derby. Dominique von Burg does not tolerate such behavior. As a matter of principle, the media are no helpers to the police, he told SDA when asked. It is only justifiable to print recognizable faces if there is an acute danger. Such a situation would be a terrorist attack, for example. While von Burg does not approve of such images being printed in the media, pictures of wanted men are published online. Last August, for example, FCZ published pictures of two wanted men on the internet for a few days who were alleged to have thrown firecrackers in the stadium. The photos were published on the club's website - at the express request of FCZ president Ancillo Canepa. This action was described as problematic by data protection experts.
