German Army investigates Afghan photos published by BILD
Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised tough action after a newspaper - Bild Zeitung on Wednesday 25 October 2006 - printed pictures that appear to show German soldiers in Afghanistan posing with a skull. Government spokesman Thomas Steg said the chancellor has made it clear that she finds the pictures shocking and disgusting.
Bild's front page screamed: "Shock Photos of German Soldiers" and inside "German Soldiers Desecrate a Dead Person." As yet, Bild is the only confirmed source for the allegations.the paper wrote.
The Bild paper wrote that a member of the German Armed Forces claimed that the pictures, one of which was splashed across Wednesday's front page, showed German peacekeepers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) unit near the capital Kabul in early 2003.
Germany's Defence Ministry said two non-commissioned officers are being questioned over the photos, which are believed to have been taken near Kabul in 2003. The photos were printed on the front page of the mass-circulation Bild newspaper on Wednesday. German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said that such behaviour by German soldiers would not be tolerated in any way.
According to a report in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, the two suspects belonged to the same mountain troops unit from the southern German state of Bavaria.
The state prosecuter's office in Potsdam, outside Berlin, confirmed that it had launched a criminal investigation into the affair on charges of "disturbing the peace of the dead."
Sources: Deutsche Welle and Bild Zeitung (in German + link to a video)
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Charles Enderlin a évidemment diffusé un faux en 2000, peut-être à son insu, mais depuis, alors que toutes les preuves ont été apportées que ces images étaient mises en scène, il s'entête et refuse de reconnaître son erreur.
Il est en effet incroyable de constater que tous les médias français sont ligués dans la défense d'Enderlin, ou plutôt, dans la dissimulation de ce sujet de débat.
Il est temps que le débat soit objectivement sur la table : était-ce un faux ?
La deuxième question est plus grave pour nous français : pourquoi les médias français pratiquent une véritable omerta ?
Enfin, la vraie question est de savoir si la nouvelle direction de Francetélévisions va continuer à couvrir Enderlin et son caméraman, qui est le vrai coupable, ou s'il vont se rendre compte du ridicule dans lequel ils s'enfoncent.
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this story is far from dead, and soon people will be able to form their own opinion by seeing the evidence themselves.
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