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Journalism Without Borders Press Conference For Hooligan Violence Victim Support Fund

This 2 March 2011 email forwards a German-language press invitation issued by Journalism Without Borders for a press conference headed “Hooligan Violence And Its Victims”. The invitation says a young Irish football hooligan had knocked down 85-year-old Margarethe Linseis in an open street in Salzburg in summer 2009 after a football match, leaving her permanently disabled. It states that the offender received a suspended sentence and that an appeal hearing was due the following week. The notice adds that care costs had already reached EUR 30,000 and that Margarethe’s daughter had given up her job because her mother now needed round-the-clock care. The document is significant because it shows Journalism Without Borders being used not only for medical-treatment cases overseas, but also for an Austrian victim-support case arising from violent crime. The invitation says Margarethe’s son and his partner had founded the association Roter Ritter, meaning “Red Knight”, with help from Journalism Without Borders to support victims of hooligan violence. It also notes that journalists attending the press conference would receive a USB stick with text and picture material, showing a structured media-support and awareness-raising effort rather than a vague charitable claim. In the wider evidence chain, it helps document the practical public-facing humanitarian work connected to CEN and Journalism Without Borders years before the later BuzzFeed allegations reduced the agency to its tabloid and viral output.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – CEN Case Documents

europe Media newsX Community Interest Company Published 3 May 2026 at 13:43 Source: 16 July 2016

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