Killed foxes, silent police officers (Swiss Press Text 2015, by Ronny Wittenwiler) - Swiss Press Award

Neue Fricktaler Zeitung

Ronny Wittenwiler

A case kept under wraps by the local authority and the regional police raises a major (rhetorical) question: What about the citizen's right to information? It begins with four young foxes deliberately killed in the middle of a residential area—or, upon closer inspection, the persistent failure of a regional police force to inform. An editorial is the result of a long-running precedent.