Last but not least: "The media are not the police's helpers"
According to the president of the Press Council, newspapers should not publish photos in which the faces of hooligans are clearly recognizable. Such a course of action is not part of the press’s responsibilities.
This was triggered by a picture of a suspected FCZ hooligan published in Blick on Tuesday. He is said to have thrown petards into the GC fan sector during the Zurich derby between the Grasshoppers and FCZ on Sunday. However, the President of the Press Council, Dominique von Burg, does not condone such an approach. As a matter of principle, the media are no helpers of the police, he said in response to an inquiry from the SDA news agency. 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 the printing of such images, pictures of wanted men are published online. Last August, for example, FCZ itself published pictures of two wanted men on the internet for a few days, who were alleged to have thrown firecrackers at Letzigrund stadium last May. 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 and Canepa took responsibility. Meanwhile, the police posted pictures of 16 allegedly violent FC Basel fans online. After all other investigative efforts were unsuccessful, the public prosecutor's office ordered the publication.
