German magazine apologises to Schumacher family, fires editor

Seven-times world champion Schumacher, now 54, has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013.The publishers of a German magazine that ran an “interview” with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great's family.

His family said this week they were planning legal action against weekly magazine Die Aktuelle, owned by the Essen-based Funke media group.“This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It in no way meets the standards of journalism that we — and our readers — expect from a publisher like Funke,” said Funke magazines' MD Bianca Pohlmann.

Schumacher's family maintains strict privacy about the former driver's condition, with access limited to those closest to him.

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