Greenspan, Fischer

Johannes Schneider Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net
Thu Jan 11 05:43:54 PST 2001


Here is an update on the latest development in the Joschka-Photo-Show: A Frankfurt court has ordered the removal of the photographs from an Internet site. It looks as if the German state is trying to supress information about Fischer's past. Before the police files mysteriously diappeared and some archival material can no longer be retrieved.

At the time of writing the photos are still on the website:

http://www.bettinaroehl.de/Der_Fischer___/Schlacht/Bilderserie/Szene_01/szen e_01.html


>From today's FAZ:

Woman Ordered to Stop Using Fischer Photos

F.A.Z. FRANKFURT. A Frankfurt court on Wednesday ordered a woman to stop using photographs taken for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that show Foreign Minister Joseph Fischer taking part in street fights in 1973.

The woman, Bettina Röhl, sold the pictures to the German publications Stern and Bild , saying she had the copyright to the them. In response, the photographer from the F.A.Z., Lutz Kleinhans, asked the court on Tuesday to intervene. In its ruling, the court told Ms. Röhl to remove the pictures from her Web site by Thursday. If she fails to comply, she could face a fine of DM500,000 ($240,000) or six months in jail. Ms. Röhl, the daughter of the late terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, has been conducting a campaign against Mr. Fischer and has asked police to charge him in a 1976 bombing.

In Wiesbaden, former Hessian Premier Holger Börner of the Social Democrats denied a Focus magazine report that the state government had asked police to turn over Mr. Fischer's files in 1985. The files are now missing, the magazine said. But a Frankfurt police spokesman said it found no indication that the files were sent to Wiesbaden and that such files are regularly destroyed after a certain period.



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