13 December 2019

I do not defend Belhaj

Hannes Huch has now written a new Insta saying that I defend Said Belhaj, which also Grimper did. I contacted both and the latter changed this as he understood my point of view. Huch has not changed although I posted on his Insta, "I do not defend Said. On the contrary, I have said that sure there are some doubts." I do not think that if Huch has just reasonable doubts he should not go out in public accusing him. In fact, in at least Sweden there is a law against that. It should be mentioned that Huch now has added in the first article, ""I know that this accusation is very serious." So once again, what is important for me is not whether Said did it or not. What is important is that you can not go around attacking a person just based on reasonable doubts. If this will become a trend, the whole climbing scene would change in a very bad way. This is my concern.
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