BILD is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office, as It's Based on Germany
A week ago: How German Media Covered Cocainegate at The European Patent Office (EPO)
A couple of days ago: Prominent German Media Dares Not Mention Cocaine at the European Patent Office, Germany's "Cash Cow" (Seller of Monopolies for the Whole of Europe)
The European Patent Office (EPO) has enabled people on cocaine to take over. There's no denying it, it would be pointless to deny this (more people come forth to confirm this to us, it is not limited to Luis Berenguer, who got busted [1, 2]).
I reckon that 3 working days should be enough for media to respond to polite, constructive queries. However, we've attempted to contact people who covered the "bust" while not only leaving out the EPO connections; they went out of their way to blur a face of a person with an income of 20,000 euros per month (which they were fully aware of), maybe as someone in the newsroom (or particular bosses) got 'cold feet'... or got paid ... or had been paid for years already.
We now need readers' help. Please contact the BILD newsroom, asking why they don't cover this EPO scandal or continue to hide the full story from the public (or from public scrutiny).
We're speaking about this in IRC at this very moment. We also heard from other people, who are not too shocked (given the history of the EPO controlling/buying the media in Germany) that the media is tone-deaf, careless, or "chilled".
"In case you are interested," one source said, "the German journalist who covered the arrest of the "Spanish cokehead" at the Oktoberfest is Karl Keim from the BILD Zeitung. His email address is: karl.keim@bild.de"
"The report published by BILD doesn't reveal that the person arrested was an EPO official. It's possible that the journalist didn't realise this."
"There is a reasonable suspicion that Berenguer didn't reveal his place of employment to the Bavarian police who busted him but instead tried to convince them that he was just a "Spanish tourist". Being (purportedly) non-resident in Munich he would be more likely to collect a fine rather than a (suspended) sentence."
"However, the fact of the matter is that - as an EPO employee - Berenguer would normally be required to maintain a residence in Munich. For the moment it's not clear whether the Bavarian police are aware of this."
I contacted Karl Keim on this matter. The mail didn't bounce, nor was there some holiday-themed auto-responder, so I assume he received my E-mail. He never responded. So may we suggest others do the same? Please, if you do, be polite. It's very likely that even if Keim is eager to cover it, someone "above" will supersede him. I met in person some British journalists who told me stories like this regarding their EPO coverage. They risked losing their job for merely talking about EPO corruption (bollocking from up above). In the case of Kieren McCarthy, his boss told me he had left his job and went back to the UK together with his family. That means one "thorn" fewer on the EPO's side.
Let's discover, together, to what extent the media isn't necessarily complicit in EPO corruption but rather 'complicit' in helping to cover up this corruption. A lot of money flowed from the EPO (under the watch of Berenguer) to various European publishers, not limited to media but also academia and other entities. That muddies the water and is collectively an attack on European freedom of the press.
The media will never find courage to say this (former EPO critics are sniffing something), but today's EPO is basically run like an organised crime operation. The last time I pointed this out and got SLAPPed for pointing this out was in 2015. █