Public prosecutor's office acts against Tyrolean entrepreneur Christoph Walser!

Public prosecutor's office acts against Tyrolean entrepreneur Christoph Walser!

Thaur, Österreich - On February 4, 2025, it became known that the Innsbruck public prosecutor's office filed a vocation in the judgment against Christoph Walser. Walser, a well-known transport entrepreneur and former president of the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce and ex-mayor of the Thaur municipality, was sentenced to a conditional prison sentence of six months and a fine of 3,600 euros. The further financial consequences include a conditional penalty of 300,000 euros and an association money profit of 120,000 euros for his company, although the probation period is three years. The verdict was accepted by Walser, but the matter is now brought to the Innsbruck Higher Regional Court, since the public prosecutor believes the punishment as too mild. This is also reported by the Orf-Tirol .

controversy around Martin Walser

In another context, the German writer Martin Walser, now 87 years old, causes a stir with his controversial statements about the media and his own role as a writer. As part of a reading of his new book "Shmekendike Blumen", he discussed his views on the literature and the influence of the media on writers. Walser criticized that intellectuals are often made figures that do not correspond to reality and that the media manipulate and simplify the public image of a person. He illustrates this with his own example and a critical view of journalism, which he sees as a twisted image of living people in order to scandalize and classify them. In an interview with

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