Sven Pichal files a complaint against Dag Allemaal and Het Laatste Nieuws

Hello everyone This week we publish an article about the funeral of Sven Pichal’s brother. According to the weekly magazine, Pichal was not present at the funeral, as can be read in both the article and the cover. That cover was reprized on the front page of Tuesday The last news. According to Hello everyone the absence is an illustration of “the total rejection by society” of Pichal, who can therefore no longer lead an anonymous life.

Pichal has now filed a complaint with the Journalism Council “because the premise of the article – that he would not have been present at his brother’s funeral – is not truthful”, his lawyers report. “This claim was also not checked with those around him or his lawyers with a view to a response. Since the funeral could be followed publicly via a livestream, everyone could determine that Sven Pichal carried the coffin of the deceased together with his brothers and attended the entire service.”

Pichal says he regrets “that the memory of his brother is being used to build an integral article, starting from a falsehood. It is saddening for the friends and family of the deceased to read this.”

In the meantime Hello everyone posted a correction and apology on his Facebook page, but that is also not well received by Pichal. Only “a limited number of followers” ​​will see that correction there. Moreover, the cover of the magazine is again reproduced in the post, without “the pertinent untruth” being adjusted.