Media: Carl Hirschmann goes before the Federal Supreme Court

Hirschmann categorized more than 140 articles from 20 Minuten, BZ Berner Zeitung, Der Bund, Radio 24, Sonntagszeitung, Tages-Anzeiger and Tele Züri as infringing personal rights and demanded their deletion from the Internet and electronic archives before the Zurich Commercial Court. He also demanded full-page apologies from the media companies as well as compensation for damages and the surrender of the profits they had allegedly made from these articles. However, the Commercial Court largely rebuffed him: It only ruled in Hirschmann's favor on three articles. On all other points, it rejected the fallen jetsetter's claim. He is now appealing this ruling, as the Federal Court announced on Friday. Although the media company Ringier was also sued at an earlier date, it relented in 2012. It deleted all articles and printed apologies. In return, Hirschmann waived his financial claims.

Definitely one year imprisonment

The millionaire scion of the Jet Aviation dynasty is currently having little luck: back in February, the Federal Supreme Court rejected an appeal against his 12-month prison sentence. He will therefore definitely have to spend a year in prison. For sentences of up to one year, the sentence can be served in semi-prison. In this case, the convicted person can do a normal job during the day and only has to spend evenings, nights and weekends in prison. In the canton of Zurich, where Hirschmann is expected to serve his sentence, half-prison sentences are served in Winterthur. The Department of Corrections will not reveal whether he has already moved into his room there in order to protect his privacy.

In November 2012, the Zurich High Court sentenced Hirschmann to a partial prison sentence of 32 months, of which he must serve 12 months. At the trial in Zurich, Hirschmann admitted that he had forced a woman to have oral sex in a toilet and had sex with a 15-year-old girl several times. (SDA)

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