26 August 2016 | the Federal Court reverses itself and chooses to ignore Dominique Giroud's arguments
This is not the first time that a decision by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has puzzled Dominique Giroud's lawyers, who are wondering why the country's highest court is ignoring the wine merchant's arguments and retaining only the incriminating facts. This time, however, the bad faith of the Federal [...]
25 August 2016 | Temps Présent condemned for smearing Dominique Giroud
Does Temps Présent ring a bell? It's the gem of news programmes in Switzerland and Europe. A benchmark since its creation in 1969. "Heavyweight", as journalists would say today. To date, the programme has never been found guilty of breaching its duty of objectivity and truthfulness. In fact, it likes to [...]
25 April 2016 | Refusing transparency to avoid fuelling "media lynching"
At the end of 2014, Dominique Giroud was cleared by the courts of the suspicion that he had put Fendant in his St-Saphorin. Stunned and disappointed, the journalists who had campaigned against him for a year refused to believe it. In their eyes, Dominique Giroud could not be innocent. Several of them asked to see the [...].
21 January 2016 | The role of RTS and journalist Yves Steiner denounced by an investigation in the German-language press
In a lengthy investigation, Weltwoche reveals the dubious actions and complicity of Yves Steiner, an RTS journalist who has since gone into the service of the Swiss Confederation, in the cyber-attack that allegedly targeted two journalists in French-speaking Switzerland in March 2014. The most troubling aspect of this case is that Yves Steiner is at both the front and the back of the line. [...]
4 September 2015 | Federal Court decision: a defeat that is tantamount to victory
In August 2014, Dominique Giroud lodged an appeal for denial of justice with the Valais Cantonal Court. The stated aim of the action was to prevent the COGEST report, which was said at the time to be imminent, from violating his privacy by disclosing confidential information about his tax file. Objective achieved. The [...]
24 June 2015 | The zeal of the Swiss Trade Commission leaves one wondering
Ah, media pressure! How many have not succumbed to it in the past? The Swiss Control of the Wine Trade (CSCV) now belongs to the category of weak institutions that kowtow to the media. The directors of the CSCV panicked and lost their wits. They published false figures and [...]
9 June 2015 | The brilliant ex-journalist Yves Steiner's case dismissed by the courts
Dominique Giroud reserves the right to bring a civil action for damages against Swiss television and the newspaper Le Temps. In this context, an administrative formality was completed at the end of 2014: the interruption of the statute of limitations through a letter signed by Le Temps (a nota bene letter that does not represent a [...]
4 June 2015 | Consumers have nothing to fear, Swiss winegrowers are working well
The system put in place to monitor the work of Swiss winegrowers is working well. The 2014 statistics presented by the Swiss Wine Trade Commission (CSCV) at a press conference are in line with those of the previous ten years. As in previous years, there are many minor administrative irregularities that are completely insignificant, and a few [...]
14 March 2015 | The great solitude of Marie Parvex
Published in mid-February 2015, the COGEST report on the Giroud case leaves no room for doubt: from start to finish, the Valais authorities acted correctly in their handling of Dominique Giroud's tax case, and he did not benefit from any complacency on the part of the tax authorities or any member of the Council of State. [...]
21 January 2015 | The foundations of Dominique Giroud's commercial success
The Valais has long been buzzing with rumours. In October 2013, the media began reporting on Dominique Giroud's troubles with the tax authorities. Since then, the rumours have turned into accusations. In the poisonous climate that surrounds his figure, we no longer wonder how Dominique Giroud managed to succeed. At the Café du [...]