Overview
- The regional court rejected the appeals and confirmed three years in prison for the main defendant and a two‑year suspended sentence for a former security employee, while the son’s six‑month suspended sentence is already final.
- Prosecutors said the extortion attempt demanded €15 million and threatened to leak private photos, videos and a digitized medical file of Michael Schumacher on the Darknet.
- The ex‑security employee withdrew his appeal during the hearings, and judges cited insufficient proof and the principle of in dubio pro reo in refusing to treat him as a co‑perpetrator.
- Investigators seized roughly 900 images, nearly 600 videos and the digitized medical file, yet one hard drive remains missing and was flagged as an evidentiary gap.
- The decision is not yet final because the Schumacher family’s legal team has announced it will file a revision to a higher court.