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An anonymous harasser wants National Councilor Meret Schneider’s underwear. Other politicians also have experience with unsolicited mail. What helps once morest this: publish.
Green National Councilor Meret Schneider also has such experiences. Someone wants “clothes and underwear” from her. When she publishes the chat, she hears nothing more.
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Green National Councilor Greta Gysin (TI), former co-president of the Netzcourage association, also does the same as Meret Schneider. You’ve started to publish really bad news. Then the sender would have apologized.
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Green National Councilor Meret Schneider is harassed by a person on Telegram – and publishes the chat history on Twitter.
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The anonymous person wants to “buy a few things from her, clothes, shoes or underwear”.
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Other national councilors have had similar experiences. Léonore Porchet (Greens, VD) reported a harasser, following which he was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 francs in autumn 2021.
Meret Schneider, Green National Councilor from Uster, published a chat history on Twitter at the start of the week that shows what politicians are confronted with. The anonymous writer “absolutely wants to buy a few things from you, clothes, shoes or underwear”. After numerous unanswered messages, he writes: “Say no and I’ll let you.” Meret Schneider writes “No”, and he continues: Too bad, “I really wanted to buy a few things from you”.
Schneider isn’t the only politician facing harassment of this kind. Her party colleague from the canton of Vaud, National Councilor Léonore Porchet, was harassed by a man by email for years, which resulted in a conviction in September 2021. The 47-year-old from the canton of Jura was sentenced to a fine of CHF 1,000 by the Vaud public prosecutor. He’d sent Porchet 28 emails, misplaced references, poems, comics. Her commitment to harassment makes you want to harass her, he wrote.
Porchet has been campaigning once morest sexual harassment for a long time, so she developed the “Eyes up” app, which gives victims of sexual assault the opportunity to document their experiences. She says herself: “I was asked to have sex on the open street.” She received so many unwanted, annoying posts on Facebook that it was unbearable. “But I don’t see it anymore because I’ve handed over the management of my profile to my assistant.”
Publish the “really bad news”
Porchet was able to report her harasser because he wrote to her under his real name. That is an exception. As a rule, such e-mails or posts come from anonymous sources. This is also the case with Meret Schneider. After all, the sender has been quiet since she published the chat history on Sunday followingnoon, says Schneider on request of 20 minutes.
The Ticino Greens National Councilor Greta Gysin says she is rarely harassed in this way. It used to happen all the time, but a few years ago she started posting the really bad news. “Many perpetrators then apologize and no longer repeat the harassment,” says Gysin, who until recently was co-president of the Netzcourage association. Unfortunately, this strategy is useless once morest fake profiles, which block them.
“I always block these people,” says GLP National Councilor Corina Gredig. Meret Schneider did the same with the underwear fetishist. Then he reported back. You also often get posts with harassing content, sexual innuendos, declarations of love or the like, says Corina Gredig. Once she showed a corresponding e-mail to a seat neighbor in the National Council, then it turned out that several politicians had received the same e-mail. She simply deleted the stuff, but she also thinks it’s right for others to actively resist it, says the Zurich native. “There is no right to harass others.”
Me-too-Debatte
During the me-too debate a few years ago, several politicians spoke of such experiences. For example, Green National Councilor Aline Trede, who described the Federal Palace as a “palace of sexism” and told how the former mayor of Bern grabbed her knee. At the time, he responded with a written statement: He was not aware of any such situation and if so, it would have had a collegial, no sexual background at most.
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