Michael Schumacher before his skiing accident. The German magazine Bunte was ordered Friday to pay €50,000 in damages plus legal fees to Michael Schumacher for claiming the former five-time Formula One world champion could walk again. In December 2015, two years after Schumacher sustained serious head injuries on a skiing holiday, Bunte ran the headline "It's more than a Christmas miracle - Michael Schumacher can walk again". But the media chamber of Hamburg's regional court found the article infringed Schumacher's privacy and ordered the magazine to pay compensation plus 65 percent of his legal costs. The verdict was based on the fact Schumacher cannot currently walk and thus could not have done so at the time the article was printed.

Source: The Local May 05, 2017 13:07 UTC