Key legal question
Whether the column contained criminally defamatory statements under Art. 174 StGB
Extracted holding
Viewed in context as satire and criticism of assisted suicide practice, the impugned wording did not assert that Minelli personally killed anyone; the defamation element of knowingly false assertion was therefore absent.
Extracted reasoning
The expression had to be read in context of the whole column and the preceding newspaper article. The wording was a pointed, ironic exaggeration about assisted suicide services, not a factual allegation of homicide.