Photo montage in the Ringier newspaper Blic causes uproar
The Belgrade daily newspaper *Blic*, which is owned by the Swiss publishing house Ringier, is to be sued for 100 million euros in damages. The reason for this is a satirical photomontage that the paper published last Saturday.
The photomontage depicted the Grand Mufti of one of the two rival Islamic religious communities in Serbia, Muamar Zurkolic, in the garb of an Orthodox bishop. He was holding hands with Pope Benedict XVI. The picture was labeled: "Greater Catholic than the Pope". As the NZZ writes on Sunday, the Islamic religious community in Serbia subsequently called for a boycott of the Belgrade newspaper at a meeting on Saturday. Blic is now to be sued for "symbolic compensation" amounting to 100 million euros.
