Sunday, December 29, 2013, there a year to the day, the former driver Michael Schumacher fell while skiing in Meribel (Savoy), violently banging his head against a rock. Suffered a serious head injury requiring two successive surgeries, the seven-time world champion in Formula 1 (1994 to 2004) was then placed in an artificial coma, from which he emerged in June.
How is it going today? The French Philippe Streiff, former F1 driver became a quadriplegic after an accident in 1989, saying close to the Schumacher family for optimism in an interview published Sunday, December 28 in The Parisian “It is better, even if the consequences are very heavy. But he still has not regained the power of speech, and communicates with the eyes. It still begins to recognize his own, his wife and children, but it has big memory problems. “
Philippe Streiff claims to possess this information ” largely thanks to Professor [Gerard] Saillant “, Chairman of the Medical Commission of the International Federation of . Automobile (FIA), and close to Michael Schumacher
Professor Saillant denied Sunday night: “For a year, I have never had any contact, verbal written or physical Philippe Streiff (…) For a year, ever family or real friends Michael have communicated outside the press Sabine [Kehm, portfolio official spokesman for the Schumacher Family] . Any journalist can testify that for a year I consistently refused any interviews or TV show. “
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Sabine Kehm confirmed this statement: ” Mr Streiff n is not in contact with us and never has been. I do not know where he got his information. “” It is noteworthy that Philippe Streiff is customary of is , further stated Professor Saillant, since he had already made statements in Grenoble, quoting me a few days after Michael’s accident. “
Since last year, the entourage of the” Red Baron “- the nickname of the old driver, inherited from his years with Scuderia Ferrari – distilled the information dropper. A month after his accident, Schumacher family announced that “sedatives administered [was] recently reduced to initiate a revival process” . The 1 st April it was the turn of Sabine Kehm to announce that Michael Schumacher showed “consciousness and awakening moments” .
On June 16, the family of the most successful driver in Formula 1 hispanic announced that it “out of the coma,” and pursued “his long period of rehabilitation” . Michael Schumacher was then transferred to the University Hospital of Grenoble than in Lausanne, Switzerland.
“Schumi” has left the institution on September 9, to return to his Swiss home in Gland on Lake Geneva while his family, in a final statement, asked the media to exercise restraint: “We ask you, again, to respect the privacy of the family and to refrain from speculating on the health status Michael. “
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