Flop of the week: Negligent naivety
On Monday morning, the news portal Tagesanzeiger.ch/Newsnetz published the police photos of Hannibal Gaddafi. The photos had been printed in the *Tribune de Genève* following Gaddafi's arrest last September.
A Geneva court ruled on April 12 that Gaddafi's personality had been violated by the publication. On Monday, the Tribune article, including police photos, was again clearly visible on the news network for a good hour. Gaddafi's likeness was then made unrecognizable. As editor-in-chief Peter Wälty told the news agency SDA on request, the image served as the basis for the corresponding article. The picture merely illustrates an article "which deals with the topic of freedom of the press and protection of sources". However, Wälty does not believe that the publication will have any legal consequences. "We didn't show the pictures", emphasized the editor-in-chief, but "the reporting in its entirety". The Tribune de Genève had already mistakenly published a facsimile of the disputed article on its website for a short time on Sunday.
