Facts
On October 10, 2017, the appellant [A.] filed a criminal complaint against [B.] and [C.] for defamation. The public prosecutor's office discontinued the criminal proceedings on June 19, 2019. [A.] appealed against the discontinuation of the proceedings, which the High Court of the Canton of Bern dismissed on October 11, 2019. [A.] has filed a criminal appeal with the request to set aside the decision of the High Court and to remand the case to the public prosecutor's office for the continuation of the criminal proceedings and the filing of charges.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court dismisses the appeal: - The appellant has not sufficiently demonstrated how the contested decision can affect his civil claims, so he is not legitimately entitled to appeal without further ado. - The public prosecutor's office and the High Court rightly assumed that the objective requirements of Art. 173 (defamation) and Art. 174 (calumny) of the Swiss Criminal Code (StGB) were not met. The statements of the respondents 2 and 3 in the letter dated July 11, 2017 were…