Roger Köppel appeals judgment against NZZ
Roger Köppel, publisher and editor-in-chief of *Die Weltwoche*, continues to fight back against the *Neue Zürcher Zeitung*. He is appealing the Zurich District Court’s ruling to the Higher Regional Court, as he announced in his newspaper on Thursday.
In mid-May, the district court dismissed Weltwoche's lawsuit against the NZZ. In the court's opinion, the latter had rightly raised the question of the background to the sale of Weltwoche to Roger Köppel in 2006 in an article dated February 16, 2010.
In the article "No transparent information world", the author pointed out that the background to the sale of Weltwoche remained "in the dark". This meant that the question of who acted as a "noble benefactor" continued to simmer.
When buying Weltwoche, there were "no hidden guarantees or securities", Köppel emphasized in an open letter to the NZZ published in his newspaper on Thursday. His only security was Weltwoche.
He must "absolutely contest" the ruling because it reverses the burden of proof. It is not he, Köppel, who must prove that he is the owner of Weltwoche, but the NZZ must provide "facts and evidence" for its "credit-damaging allegations". (SDA)
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