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Journalist dressed as priest sneaks into Schumacher's hospital room

Journalist dressed as priest sneaks into Schumacher's hospital room

  • Published on 02 Jan 2014 13:52
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  • By: Danny Sosef
Someone dressed as a priest, reportedly a journalist, tried to sneak into the hospital room of Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident.

The claim, made by his manager, Sabine Kehm, was quoted widely in the German media after a press conference in Grenoble, where the former world champion driver is being treated following the accident on Sunday.

She said: "There have been several interesting incidents here at the hospital. There apparently was a person dressed-up as a priest, who tried to get near Michael.

"I am asking everyone to let the doctors work and leave the family spend peaceful time with Michael."

Asked specifically whether the fake priest was a journalist, she said: "It's what I was told... We have clearly noted that people are trying to get beyond the press room here in the clinic. It's revolting, in my opinion."

After the man's cover was blown, he was said to have been escorted off the premises. But he was not identified.

As The Guardian's Berlin correspondent, Philip Oltermann, pointed out, the incident is reminiscent of the hospital room intrusion by two Sunday Sport journalists in 1990.

They dressed as medical staff in order to photograph the 'Allo 'Allo actor Gorden Kaye, who was hospitalised after a car accident. That case not only made legal history (in Kaye v Robertson) but also influenced the outcome of the report by the Calcutt Committee, the precursor to the creation of the Press Complaints Commission, itself now discredited.
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