Press Council reprimands Tribune de Genève: Human dignity violated
Attributing a specific odor to a group of marginalized people referred to as «rabble» violates their human dignity. This is the view of the Swiss Press Council. In a statement published on Tuesday, it issued a reprimand to the Tribune de Genève.
The French-speaking Swiss newspaper reported on a night-time police operation in the Pâquis district of Geneva. Of a total of 92 people stopped, 92 were released again, it said. The only "result" was an "acrid, heavy smell" in the rooms in the concrete basement of the police building: "The smell of the rabble" ("L'odeur de la racaille"). A reader then lodged a complaint against this attribution with the media industry's self-regulatory body.
