A week ago, there was good news from Michael Schumacher's camp. The former F1 racing driver was out of coma and was already transferred from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility. But that's all the update was about regarding Schumacher's condition.
Now, there's new news. It appears that Schumacher's medical files have gone missing. Later, the medical files were up for sale, which means that they were stolen.
Who would want to steal medical records and why put a price on them? Could it be that the reason behind Schumacher's accident hasn't been truly revealed? A French prosecutor investigated the skiing accident and he concluded that speed wasn't the cause of the accident. Will the medical records show differently?
Meanwhile, Sabine Kehm, manager of Schumacher, made a statement regarding this alarming matter. She said that the sale has been going on for days. "We cannot judge if these documents are authentic. However, the documents are clearly stolen. The theft has been reported. The authorities are involved," she says.
"Medical files are confidential, and it is forbidden to buy or publish such data," Kehm adds. "We will therefore, in every single case, press for criminal charges and damages against any publication of the content or reference to the medical file."
When Schumacher was in a coma, he stayed at a Grenoble hospital in France sice Dec. 29, 2014. It was only recently that he got transferred to a rehabilitation facility in Switzerland. The Grenoble hospital's media office shared with CNN that "a person intended to sell to the press a document allegedly issued from the medical records of Michael Schumacher."
German newspaper Bild spokesman Tobias Frolich confirmed this revelation and told CNN that they were among the media outlets offered the medical records. However, their editorial office rejected the offer.
The French police are now investigating the theft and tracked the emails to media outlets from a Swiss City, reports Daily Mail UK. Further, the price for the medical records is 40,000 euros.
