The tabloid
Bild
, the most powerful and feared
tabloid
in the country for its tendency to reveal the dirty laundry of others in German society, has been sparked by scandal and has chosen this time to wash its own at home.
Media partner
Axel Springer
, who owns both the newspaper itself and the daily
Die Welt
, will not comment on the investigation it has launched to clarify the accusations of numerous women in the newsroom against the editor-in-chief,
Julian Reichelt
.
Among the violations of the code of behavior imposed on the newspaper that Reichelt allegedly incurred are "abuse of power, exploitation of dependency relationships and
mobbing
."
"When there are rumors or those affected show signs of misconduct against third parties, the company immediately sets up mechanisms to clarify the facts," explains the consortium.
For this reason, Axel Springer has commissioned a well-known German law firm to investigate possible inappropriate behavior that the hitherto director of the tabloid may have committed against his colleagues.
And, is that, while the investigation lasts, Reichelt will remain separated from his functions, a decision that he himself claims to have taken voluntarily so as not to damage the investigation.
Her interim substitute will be the director of the Sunday edition,
Alexandra Würzbach.
Although the investigation has only just begun and the evidence of alleged abuses by the director of the Bild is based for the moment on the statements of some colleagues, some competing media have already dedicated explosive headlines, common in the tabloid itself, towards the
Bild
.
Without going any further, the weekly
Der
Spiegel,
one of the leading German media, has already loaded its ink: "
Fuck, promote, fire
".
Those were the words that appeared on the pages of this medium attributed to an anonymous journalist from
Bild
about the mood of the editor-in-chief at his job and in his relationship with his colleagues.
For several weeks now, accusations of abuse and
mobbing
against Julian Reichelt have been circulating in Germany, when a satirical program on public television
ZDF
echoed, but always anonymously and with sources who refuse to reveal his identity.
A situation that the affected person himself frames in which
"everything is false"
and, therefore, he announces that he will sue all those people who "seek to poison" with information that he considers damages his figure.
That includes
Der Spiegel
, which heads this type of information, similar to what was already published in the United States with the
Me Too
movement
against media moguls such as Roger Ailes, who died in 2017, and accused of abusing co-workers.
According to Reichtel, the weekly did not contact him to ask for his opinion on the matter, a point that the magazine denies.
Der Spiegel
defends that, since last February they have "tried to contact Reitchel personally" without success and that
the press office of the editor Axel Springer was aware
of the information that was being worked on in the weekly and that affected the until now director of the
Bild.
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