24 December 2014 | Day 20, how will the media react to the Cogest report?
Journalists like to be right. What does a journalist do when he discovers that he was wrong at 80%? They point out that they were right at 20%. That's just the way it is. Which raises a legitimate question: what's going to happen on 13 January 2015 when the Valais Grand Council's management committee (the Cogest) publishes its report [...]?
23 December 2014 | Le Temps and RTS go wild
As a reminder: Dominique Giroud made a tax error. He has acknowledged this error. He said it was unacceptable. He has publicly expressed his regrets. He undertook to reimburse the amounts he had misappropriated. He was convicted by the courts. Fault-regrets-conviction-reparation. The case is closed. But not for everyone. In his [...]
14 December 2014 | There was never any Fendant in St-Saphorin (encore)
Dominique Giroud's reaction to the article in Le Matin Dimanche on 14 December 2014: On 3 December 2014, Dominique Giroud announced that, following an in-depth investigation, the courts had established that he had not tampered with his wine and that "the content of the St-Saphorin bottles complied with the applicable legislation". In the interview [...]
4 December 2014 | Question from L'Agefi: Will Dominique Giroud go after those who falsely accused him?
Spokesman's reaction Dominique Giroud has been acquitted by the courts in the so-called St-Saphorin case. The Vaud court was able to establish that the bottles were in conformity. Dominique Giroud's spokesman, Marc Comina, explains what action his client will take in response to the court's decision. Do you have an estimate of the commercial damage caused to [...].
3 December 2014 | Valais Grand Council committee violates Dominique Giroud's privacy
Double standards. The Justice Committee (COJU) of the Valais Grand Council has published a report in which it refers to two wine cellars. In the first case, it was careful to protect the privacy of the person concerned, who was referred to only by his initials (S.S.). In the second case, she forgets herself and mentions Dominique Giroud by name. [...]