SRF may no longer use TV interview
The Baden District Court has issued a super-provisional injunction prohibiting SRF’s «Kassensturz» program from rebroadcasting an interview with Spreitenbach Mayor Valentin Schmid that aired in February or from leaving it online.
The background to this is the "Kassensturz" report on a social welfare recipient in the municipality of Spreitenbach. According to SRF research, the municipality is said to have urged the man to pay out his retirement assets instead of receiving social welfare. The case was discussed several times. The mayor of Spreitenbach also had his say, who of course presented the matter differently.
Nevertheless, "Kassensturz" took up the topic again and wanted to interview the mayor again. He obtained a super-provisional injunction from the Baden district court that his earlier interview could no longer be used by television. The television producers are defending themselves against this judicial interference in media freedom. They describe the interference as summary justice, which is blatantly unconstitutional and in clear violation of the law.
Superprovisional injunctions are issued if the plaintiff can credibly demonstrate that this will avert an immediate threat to a legal interest.
If such a measure is ordered, the court will summon the defendant to a hearing or give him/her the opportunity to make a written statement. It then makes a final decision on the application. (SDA)
