A German court docket has sentenced a nightclub bouncer to a few years in jail over a plot to blackmail Michael Schumacher’s household for €15 million (£12.5m).
Yilmaz Tozturkan is considered one of three individuals to have been sentenced over the plan. His son Daniel Lins was given a six-month suspended sentence for his position, according to reports in German media. Markus Fritsche, Schumacher’s former bodyguard, was given a two-year suspended sentence.
The trial discovered Tozturkan obtained over 1,500 recordsdata together with photographs, movies and medical information and informed the Schumacher household the personal materials can be uploaded to the darkish internet except fee was made. Tozturkan expressed remorse for his actions throughout the trial.
The Schumacher household’s lawyer Thilo Damm described the sentences as “lenient” and mentioned they might attraction in opposition to them. The household additionally expressed issues that not the entire delicate materials obtained by the defendants had been recovered regardless of a number of searches of their properties.
The seven-times world champion, who retired from Components 1 in 2012, has not been seen in public since struggling a severe mind harm in a snowboarding crash in France throughout December 2013.
His household has endeavoured to maintain particulars of his situation personal since then. Quickly after the accident one journalist was accused of making an attempt to realize entry to the previous driver by impersonating a priest.
The Schumacher family received compensation last year after a German journal revealed what it claimed to be an “interview” with the motive force, which appeared to have been generated utilizing synthetic intelligence. Funke-Mediengruppe, publishers of Die Aktuell, gave the household £170,000 (€200,000).
One of many few official feedback made by the household on Schumacher lately appeared in a 2021 documentary. Within the programme his spouse Corinna mentioned: “All people misses Michael, however Michael is right here. Completely different, however he’s right here, and that provides us power, I discover.”
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