The Berlin regional court has banned the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” from parts of its reporting on a criminal warrant procedure and a family law dispute involving tennis professional Alexander Zverev because these violated the principles of permissible suspicious reporting. Accordingly, the newspaper must in future refrain from making significant allegations from an article on “page three” of the issue of November 3, 2023.
When asked, the editor-in-chief of the SZ said that it considered the decision to be “not appropriate”. It restricts the possibilities for reporting suspicions in an unacceptable way. The SZ editor-in-chief points out that Zverev and his then partner gave insights into their private lives “on social media in front of an audience of millions”. The SZ will appeal against the regional court’s decision.
According to the law firm Schertz Bergmann, which represents Zverev, the authors of the SZ were informed before publication that certain details could not be made public. Zverev’s lawyers complain that the case makes it clear that “the limits of permissible suspicious reporting are currently simply being ignored by the media.”
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The SZ article from November 3rd can no longer be viewed online. Zverev is accused of assault by his former partner, influencer Brenda Patea. The two have a child together. At the beginning of October, the Tiergarten district court imposed a penalty order against the Olympic tennis champion. It ordered Zverev to pay a fine of 450,000 euros. The tennis professional objected to this. He denies the allegations made against him.
2023-12-07 17:11:00
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