Juan Carlos Barrena
Berlin
Friday, July 5, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
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German police have arrested a 3rd suspect and alleged mastermind of the tried blackmail of the household of Michael Schumacher, the previous Components 1 world champion who has retired from public life after struggling a critical snowboarding accident virtually 11 years in the past. A spokesman for the Wuppertal public prosecutor’s workplace introduced as we speak the arrest of a 52-year-old man who had been a part of the Schumacher household’s safety workforce.
The arrest passed off on Thursday within the city of Wülfrath, close to Wuppertal, on the suspect’s dwelling, the place investigators seized a considerable amount of materials and objects which are being analysed. Two weeks in the past, two different males, a father and son aged 53 and 30, had been arrested. Personal images of the Schumacher household had been apparently discovered within the possession of the 2 suspects.
The investigation into the origin and provenance of the photographs of the intimate lifetime of the closest kinfolk of the seven-time Components One world champion has lastly led to the final arrest. The prosecutor accountable for the case had commented on Thursday that father and son had instructed workers of the Schumacher household that they had been in possession of photographs that they didn’t wish to see printed.
The blackmailers demanded a million-dollar ransom to stop the pictures from being made public on the Darknet. To additional emphasize their menace, the daddy and son despatched the household copies of the pictures of their possession. The case started to unfold after the German authorities had been alerted by the Swiss police of the tried blackmail in opposition to the Components 1 driver’s household.
After discovering that the blackmail was being carried out from Wuppertal, the police arrested the 2 males aged 53 and 30 on 19 June within the automotive park of a grocery store within the city of Gross Gerau, in central Germany. Each had legal data and had been on probation for a earlier conviction, based on a number of German media stories.
This isn’t the primary time that Michael Schumacher’s household has been the sufferer of blackmail. In 2017, the Reutlingen court docket within the southern state of Baden-Württemberg convicted a 25-year-old man who demanded a ransom of 900,000 euros from Corinna Schumacher, the motive force’s spouse, in change for assurances that their youngsters wouldn’t undergo an “accident.” The person was sentenced to 21 months in jail.
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