The Picture on sunday made “a serious mistake”. The newspaper does that all in one Online article from late Wednesday evening yourself a. On the cover of the June 27 issue, next to the headline “The knife killer targeted women”, it was not the alleged perpetrator from Würzburg that was to be seen, but a completely uninvolved person. What the BamS has now moved to apologize “on my own behalf”.
In the text, which has not been drawn by anyone, it says: “The photo on the front page does NOT show the urgent suspect who has since been taken into custody, but a compatriot of the accused who is not connected to the crime.” Apologize in all ways.
Why did the BamS show the alleged perpetrator unpixeled at all?
After the most thorough research, one would have had “no reasonable doubt” that on the planned front page of the BamS the accused will be shown. “Several sources had confirmed this to us independently of one another, one person involved in the investigation in Würzburg even in writing upon request.”
Apart from the fact that the mix-up is a fatal journalistic mistake, another question arises: Why did she BamS the alleged perpetrator even shown unpixeled? One can assume that when you weigh up potential sales figures and respect for personal rights, you lose picture often the latter. The text “In my own right” shows that there is another way: It is illustrated by a photo of flowers and candles at the crime scene. The photo of the alleged suspect was also removed from the relevant online article. But that doesn’t mean it has been erased from the depths of the Internet.
The end of the apology is particularly cynical: “This photo mix-up is all the more regrettable as the person concerned has a hard time in the current situation because of his origin and refugee status.” What for Picture on sunday may have contributed a lot.