Arrests after threats against Ringier journalists
Zurich city police arrested a 24-year-old and a 36-year-old Swiss man on Thursday for allegedly threatening Ringier journalists in November 2011. According to police reports on Friday, the older of the two has since confessed. The younger one is still being questioned.
The 36-year-old was released after being questioned. The two allegedly harassed five Blick journalists with phone calls and text messages and threatened them. They are also alleged to have placed dead fish in the letterboxes of the four sports reporters and one court reporter. They also put up posters with pictures of three of the five people threatened. They asked: "Who knows these (reputation) murderers?", with the word reputation printed in very small letters. These posters were completed with the telephone numbers and addresses of the journalists.
The journalists were presumably targeted by the two alleged perpetrators as a result of their reporting in connection with the petard throwing at the FCZ match against Lazio Roma. The FCZ fan was seriously injured in the hand by the self-detonated firework. Blick subsequently published pictures of the petard thrower - the area around his eyes was blackened - and described him as a petard thrower. Following the poster display and the harassment, the journalists filed a complaint with the public prosecutor's office and the Zurich city police. The police investigation then led to the two Swiss nationals living in the city of Zurich. (SDA)
