Michael Schumacher: In the blackmail case, the main focus is now on the nurse | EUROtoday

The public prosecutor’s workplace is now additionally investigating a nurse due to the failed blackmail of the household of ex-Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher. She taken care of the racing driver for a time. In her case, the preliminary suspicion of involvement in tried blackmail is now being investigated, mentioned a spokesman for the general public prosecutor’s workplace in Wuppertal.

At the beginning of the blackmail try trial in Wuppertal, each the primary suspect and an worker of the Schumacher household talked about the nurse. She was referred to as as a witness on the primary day of the trial, however didn’t seem.

The alleged principal perpetrator confessed at the beginning of the trial {that a} co-defendant had given him two onerous drives with photos and video materials of the Schumachers. He advised him that he obtained the fabric from a nurse. The required 15 million euros ought to subsequently have been divided by three.

An worker of the Schumacher household testified as a witness that after the primary blackmail name, they initially suspected the nurse, who had been fired due to her poor high quality of care. “We saw unpleasant things there.”

Photos, movies and the medical information

The public prosecutor’s workplace additionally initiated proceedings on suspicion of deliberately making unsworn false statements towards a witness who had retracted his 33-page earlier assertion on the case in courtroom.

The Schumacher household was blackmailed into publishing personal photographs and movies. She ought to pay 15 million euros, in any other case the pictures can be printed on the darknet. According to the general public prosecutor’s workplace, 900 photos and virtually 600 movies of the household in addition to Michael Schumacher’s digitized medical information have been seized.

Three males between the ages of 30 and 53 have been charged within the district courtroom. The trial is scheduled to proceed subsequent Monday. A verdict isn’t anticipated till the brand new yr.