Jul.4 (GMM) Blackmailers threatened to launch photographs of the injured Formulation 1 legend Michael Schumacher, in accordance with Germany’s greatest newspaper Bild.
In keeping with one other German-language newspaper, Austria’s Kleine Zeitung, German public investigators and prosecutors “discovered personal photographs within the possession” of two males who had been attempting 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 hundreds of thousands from the household of the previous Formulation 1 driver.”
“In keeping with the general public prosecutor’s workplace, the suspects informed relations that that they had recordsdata that the (Schumacher) household is perhaps concerned 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 recordsdata.”
Bild newspaper, in the meantime, claims the photographs in query “are mentioned to depict Schumacher after his snowboarding accident”.
And yet one more newspaper, Sudkurier, one of many blackmailers “supplied the fabric to 2 individuals greater than two years in the past in order that they may perform the blackmail collectively, however they refused.”
Senior public prosecutor Wolf-Tilman Baumert confirmed in an announcement that the supplies within the blackmailers’ possession included, “amongst different issues, photograph recordsdata referring to the Schumacher household’s personal life”.
The identical Wuppertal prosecutor can 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 will be seen within the photographs.”
