Markus Hürlimann to sue Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin for CHF 700,000

Legal proceedings have been initiated by the lawyer of Markus Hürlimann as a result of insinuations made against the SVP parliamentarian by Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin, a former Green Alternative parliamentarian, following an official function to celebrate Heinz Tännler becoming the head of the cantonal government in December of 2014.
 
According to the “20 Minuten” newspaper, the legal proceedings have been initiated at this time to ensure that no time-bar will prevent them from being able to be pursued if left any longer.
 
In short, Hürlimann is looking to a sum amounting to CHF 700,000 from Spiess-Hegglin. It was following the afore-mentioned party that the now 35-year-old took herself off to hospital with pains in the lower abdomen insinuating a drink she had had the previous evening, of which she had no memory, had been spiked by Hürlimann in order to take advantage of her. The matter, which became known as the Zug Sex Affair, featured prominently not just in the local but also the national press in the first few months of 2015. All charges in relation to Hürlimann having administered a knock-out drug were dropped after it was found he had no case to answer.
 
Despite raising a formal objection to the start of legal proceedings against her, in the event of her having to pay the afore-mentioned figure, a crowd-funding account on the Facebook entry of “Zug Reloaded” has been set up to ensure the former parliamentarian can pay if it comes to this stage. Contributors, of whom there are 162 to date, have been promised a party if the required amount is reached.