Swiss Jewish Leader Denies Leaking Pro-Gaza Mayor’s Nude Selfies
The president of a Swiss Jewish community denied accusations that he helped leak nude photos of a pro-Palestinian mayor who had sent them to a younger woman.
Josef Bollag, who heads the Baden-Baden Jewish community, issued the denial last week in an op-ed that he wrote amid the unfolding of a scandal that forced Mayor Geri Muller to temporarily step down as mayor, though he was reinstated this week. Bollag is a longtime critic of Muller over Muller’s harsh criticism of Israel and advocacy of Iran.
The woman, a 33-year-old teacher identified in the Swiss media only by her initials, N.W., “made contact with me and in no time did I press to hand over the incriminating material about Geri Muller to media,” Bollag wrote in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung daily on Aug. 26.
The affair, known locally as Mullergate, was first reported last month by the Schweiz am Sonntag weekly.
According to the publication, Muller, 52, sent the woman nude photos of himself while posing at his office at Baden-Baden City Hall.
The weekly did not publish the photos but wrote about their existence after receiving copies.
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