After months of sparse updates on his condition, his entourage finally
announced last month that he was no longer in a coma and had moved from
Grenoble in southeastern France to the University Hospital of Lausanne in
western Switzerland.
Today, the prosecutor’s office in Grenoble confirmed it had identified the IP
address of the computer belonging to the alleged thief.
“The IP address was located in a helicopter firm in the Zurich area,”
said a spokesman, who declined to reveal the name of the company or the
alleged thief, saying the investigation was now a matter for the Swiss
authorities.
A report in Dauphine Libéré, the French local newspaper, said the firm had
initially been due to transfer Mr Schumacher to Lausanne and had apparently
been given a copy of the medical report.
The document did not appear in Mr Schumacher’s final medical report and was
likely to have been a draft left in a hospital bin, according to the
prosecutor.
A source close to the investigation said the document appeared to be a summary
written by Mr Schumacher’s doctor for his transfer to Switzerland.
Sabine Kehm, the Formula One champion’s spokeswoman, has warned that the
documents are confidential and promised to sue any publication that releases
the medical records.