News host detained by Swiss police.
QUICK FACTS:
- Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec was detained by Swiss police on Monday while covering the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
- Posobiec posted to Twitter a video that he recorded from his phone showing multiple Swiss police surrounding the journalist’s film crew, who were sitting in front of a restaurant.
- One officer can be heard telling Posobiec to put his phone away because filming on the street is “not allowed,” according to the officer.
- “Is that a law in Switzerland?” Posobiec asks the officer.
- “Here, it’s not allowed. Please put it away,” the officer replies.
- “I’m not familiar with that law. It seems like you just don’t want me to film,” Posobiec tells the officer.
- “Sir, please put it away,” the officer repeats.
- “OK,” says Posobiec reluctantly as the video ends.
ANOTHER REPORTER INTERRUPTS, RECORDS POSOBIEC’S DETENTION:
- Reporter Savanah Hernandez, who is also covering the WEF’s annual meeting, approached Posobiec and crew’s detention by Swiss police after becoming aware of the situation.
- Hernandez captured images from a wider angle showing how multiple officers were involved in the stop.
- “How come he’s being surrounded right now? Is he allowed to leave the area?” Hernandez asks one of the officers in another video posted on Twitter.
- “We’re just making a normal police control,” the officer replies, before explaining that the WEF meeting had made the situation in town “very sensitive.”
- “Is there a reason he specifically was targeted?” Hernandez asks the officer.
- “There is a reason because we have to have a reason to control a person,” says the officer, without explaining what that reason was.
BACKGROUND:
- Top politicians, CEOs, and the world’s wealthiest gather every year in Davos, Switzerland, for the ‘World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022’ taking place from May 22–26.
- The WEF predicts that by the year 2030, citizens of every nation will “own nothing. And you’ll be happy.”
- “The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room,” said WEF founder Klaus Schwab during this year’s annual meeting. “We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities. That we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That’s what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate.”
