International witchhunt against critical sites

Another relevant indication in this direction is according to legal files the lot of official authorities (beside public prosecution and district attorney) being involved in this newly «pilot case» against www.blutgeil.com: 
- Institute for journalism (IPMZ), university of Zurich (File 1  in German)
- Criminal Department of the state of Bavaria, BRD (File 2  in German)
- Interpol Wiesbaden, BRD (File 3 in German)
- Federal Police Department, Bern (File 4 in German)
- Cantonal police Zurich, special task force 2 «sex crimes» (File 5 in German)
- Cantonal police Zurich, criminal authority district 2 (interrogation in German)
It's the last straw that the operators are once more officially filed as «terrorists» being connected with critical police reporting (a.o. about injuries of "teargas" on PigBrother.info). But one after another:

Institute for journalism of university Zurich:
Home of applied denunciation

Head of institute for journalism and media-science Prof. Bonfadelli is well known for regularly calling for «measure» against «violent videogames» with the explanation, that «a connection between the consumption of violent games» and «the use of violence in the real world» is «a scientifically proven fact» - knowing how to give the (wrong) impression, that the «found out connection» would be the one between cause and effect. Less known is the fact that the active professor uses to call for denunciation among friends and on the quiet. The pilot case against www.blutgeil.com reveals for the first time such a «private» campaign during lectures and with means of the university.

Assistant Jochen Hoffmann being put forward as a front man (j.hoffmann@ipmz.unizh.ch) reported his accusations to the criminal authorities of the state of Bavaria as a precaution hopeing to hush up the sender's address. Unfortunately his mails were filed including the header giving proof of using the official university server rzumail2.unizh.ch to do his denunciations during office hours (09:46). Another racy detail: reason of the denunciation was not so called "portrayal of violence" but explicitly the critical reports about police brutality on www.blutgeil.com - in Hoffmann's jargon: «smear campaign against the state and particularly against the police […]. I would be grateful to you - by informing responsible colleagues in other countries - for doing everything possible to erase these pages out of the internet and to call the responsibles to account.» (Emphasizes by SSI)

Police officers and DA think the same

Matter of honour that the criminal authorities of the state of Bavaria in cooperation with Interpol Wiesbaden were very generous in starting immediately extensive investigations with the result (without nameing further reasons), that not only blutgeil.com, but also the documentation about the airport-prison Art in Jail (english version available) as well as the literature-site slowgrind.com (only in German) are «gloryfing violence». Also matter of honour that Swiss state police authority as well as cantonal police Zurich and DA Wehrli (at public prosecution's behest) adopt this opinion without questioning and conjure legal proceedings up out of nothing against unpleasant site operators in record time.

Rejection of Charge No. 1

March 12th 2002, Judge Guggenbühl rejects the charge as "not clear enough" and demands formal stopping against ART IN JAIL and slowgrind.com. Despite slowgrind.com being a purely text page and art. 135 explicitely excluding textpublications, the district attorney extensively snoops around on our «literature pages», underlining once more the purely political motivation of his preceedings.

Proceeding #2: «Illegal Portrayal of Policemen»

Meanwhile, PigBrother.info-Reporter Anger gets arrested violently after filming a plain clothes officer provoking with an empty bottle during a manifestation on May 1st 2002. Journalist / cameraman / photographer Anger, in the local policecorps only too well known for his work depicting e.g. the puking officer having inhaled some of his own «teargas» (see loop, click to enlarge), is taken into custody under the charge of «illegal portrayal of officers» – the favourite excuse for harrassing members of the press during the last 20 years, illegaly confisating and «accidentally destroying» films and tapes and gravely beating unliked photographers, although there actually doesn't exist such a law which prohibits taking pictures of policemen. Unfortunately for the police, after years and years of legal struggle, concluding in a case won before federal court by media-union comedia, just this spring 2002 police had finally to admit this fact. So this 1st accusation was silently dumped, the new accusation being "hindering officers from official duty" – a tried and tested "offence of embarrassment": Whenever police can't blame the arrested for nothing, but despite won't let him free, a (false) statement of an officer (or two) is sufficient to zurich courts for conviction. Additionally, the authorities refuse to give the illegaly confiscated videotape back – but instead hand it out to the Political Police! >>> detailed report on the arrest with additional pics

«Illegal Publication / Advertisement»: Charge No. 2

After a 3rd interrogation on June 4th 2002, DA Wehrli issues Charge No. 2 dated June 17th 2002. Instead of clarifying the critisised plainly groundless to totally absurd accusasions, he simply adds another: Since the accused appeared at occasion of an interview in a local newspaper wearing a blutgeil.com-hooded-shirt, now he should additionally be sentenced for «advertising of a forbidden film»!!! So much for freedom of speech in Switzerland ...