Roger Köppel: "That was not agitation"
Weltwoche publisher Roger Köppel stands by his position: The article in which his newspaper calls the resigned SNB President Philipp Hildebrand a «crook» and holds him personally responsible for the foreign exchange transactions contains no errors or defamatory statements.
"The story is true," Köppel asserted on Monday on Swiss television's "Schawinski" program. Hildebrand was unable to prove the opposite, i.e. that his wife had commissioned the transactions and not he himself. The Weltwoche editor-in-chief stands by his claim that his newspaper "uncovered that the top boss was personally speculating in foreign exchange". Köppel remains silent about the source of this alleged revelation. However, he went on to say that it was not important who had ordered the transactions. The account bore Hildebrand's name, so he was responsible for it.
Köppel shrugged off the accusation of hate speech made by presenter Roger Schawinski during the broadcast. "That was not incitement. Mr Hildebrand destabilized himself." Köppel was not pleased that the demand for his resignation made by Weltwoche was fulfilled on Monday, as he emphasized. Revelations worthy of a banana republic are nothing to be happy about. (SDA)
