Jul.4 (GMM) Blackmailers threatened to launch images of the injured Method 1 legend Michael Schumacher, in accordance with Germany’s largest newspaper Bild.
In response to one other German-language newspaper, Austria’s Kleine Zeitung, German public investigators and prosecutors “discovered non-public images within the possession” of two males who had been making an attempt to blackmail the Schumacher household.
“The suspects, who’re mentioned to be father and son, had been arrested by Hessian police on June 19,” mentioned the article. “They’re mentioned to have tried to extort thousands and thousands from the household of the previous Method 1 driver.”
“In response to the general public prosecutor’s workplace, the suspects advised relations that that they had information that the (Schumacher) household may be fascinated about not publishing. They then threatened to publish them on the darkish web,” Kleine Zeitung added.
“The 2 males, aged 30 and 53, additionally despatched supplies to the (Schumacher) household to show possession of the information.”
Bild newspaper, in the meantime, claims the images in query “are mentioned to depict Schumacher after his snowboarding accident”.
And one more newspaper, Sudkurier, one of many blackmailers “provided the fabric to 2 individuals greater than two years in the past in order that they might perform the blackmail collectively, however they refused.”
Senior public prosecutor Wolf-Tilman Baumert confirmed in a press release that the supplies within the blackmailers’ possession included, “amongst different issues, photograph information regarding the Schumacher household’s non-public life”.
The identical Wuppertal prosecutor can also be quoted as saying by the German broadcaster RTL: “For investigative tactical causes, we don’t presently wish to present any additional details about what precisely might be seen within the images.”
