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Anger at use of Amy Winehouse’s image on Swiss anti-drugs poster
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 9 August 2011
There was some anger yesterday after a branch of the Young SVP – the youth wing of the Swiss People’s Party – used an image of Amy Winehouse on a poster carrying the slogan in French: “No to the decriminalisation of drugs”.
The poster was distributed online yesterday and Grégory Logean, president of the Young SVP group in French-speaking Unterwallis, which published the poster, told Swiss newspaper Blick: “The death of Amy Winehouse put a sad reality before our eyes that other parties often forget – the harmful effects of drug consumption. It is not our methods which are shocking – it is reality. We are displaying a photo that the whole world already knows. Winehouse was known not only for her songs, but above all for her drug excesses”.
According to another Swiss newspaper, The Local, the organisation will decide later this week whether or not to go ahead with plans to print physical copies of the poster.
In other Amy Winehouse news, Pete Doherty has commented on the singer’s recent death. He told The People: “I’m struggling with fucking everything because I’m so bewildered about what happened to Amy. I was in bed when I heard the news of her death. Someone had to wake me up to tell me. I couldn’t take it in and still can’t. Coming to terms with what has happened is almost impossible. It’s hard to think she’s not with us any more”.
