Avidity sometimes leads directly behind bars. A 53 -year -old man was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison in Germany for trying to sing Michael Schumacher’s family threatening to publish photos of former Formula 1 champion. His son, accomplice in this case , received six months suspended prison sentence.
The main accused, Yilmaz T., had demanded 15 million euros in exchange for his silence, threatening to broadcast confidential images and videos on the Darknet, the hidden and opaque side of the web. To orchestrate this blackmail, his son Daniel had helped him by sending the threats from an intraçable email address.
Sales of photos from the former F1 pilot
But the case does not stop there. A third man, a former Schumacher family security officer until March 2021, was also sentenced to two years in suspended prison sentence. According to the accusation, he sold to the principal accused of precious images showing the pilot before and after his ski accident in 2013. Despite these accusations, he denied any involvement and kept silent until the end of the trial.
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Faced with the judges, Yilmaz T. and his son recognized the facts and expressed their regrets. “We are sorry,” they said. But the Wuppertal court judged their act unforgivable, especially since the three men already had a criminal record. Since his terrible accident in Méribel in December 2013, Michael Schumacher has not been seen in public. Victim of a serious head trauma, he spent almost six months in an artificial coma before being taken care of at his home in Switzerland, out of sight and the media.
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