Gaddafi affair: Police photos on the news network for a short time
Late Monday morning, the online news portal Tagesanzeiger.ch/Newsnetz published the police photos of Hannibal Gaddafi. The photos had been printed in the Geneva daily Tribune de Genève following Gaddafi’s arrest last September.
A Geneva court ruled on April 12 that the publication had violated Gaddafi's personality. The newspaper was ordered to publish the judgment. On Monday, the Tribune article, including police photos, was clearly visible again for a good hour on the online portal Newsnetz. 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 "that deals with the topic of press freedom and the 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. For half an hour, the newspaper illustrated an article by the French news agency AFP.
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 "that deals with the topic of press freedom and the 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. For half an hour, the newspaper illustrated an article by the French news agency AFP.
