IOC-Countdown (11 Tage): Kandidat mit Säbel oder: Bach lässt Anwalt Schertz schreiben (II)
tl;dr: Summary for the rapidly growing international audience on this independent journalistic website devoted to transparency in sport, the fight against corruption in sport, investigative journalism and the so-called Olympic movement:
Thomas Bach, widely seen as the favorite in IOC’s presidential race, which will be decided in Buenos Aires, September 10th, but losing ground in several polls, continues to get nervous – obviously.
He has hired Berlin-based lawyer Christian Schertz, who continues to send emails and letters with threatening content to journalists for doing their job – which means: they investigated, they asked questions. […]
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Vor zwei Wochen habe ich erwähnt, wie der so genannte Prominentenanwalt Christian Schertz in Namen des IOC-Präsidentschaftsfavoriten Thomas Bach (FDP) die freie Journalistin Grit Hartmann unter Druck setzt. Auf einfachste, höflich und fachgerecht formulierte Fragen zu Bachs Vergangenheit als Fechter in Tauberbischofsheim (und seiner medizinischen Betreuung) gab es keine inhaltliche Antwort.