Ex-boxing world champion Felix Sturm: "I learned in prison Mau-Mau"

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Middleweight Sturm:

Learned in prison Mau-Mau

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Marcus Simaitis / DER SPIEGEL

Sturm, 41, born in 1979 under the name Adnan Ćatić in Leverkusen, was five times world champion between 2003 and 2016.

The middleweight was a crowd favorite, boxing in front of almost 20,000 spectators.

Stars like the footballer Lukas Podolski sat at his appearances at the ring, on the screen millions followed his fights.

In an interview with SPIEGEL, he is now expressing himself for the first time about his trial.

SPIEGEL:

Mr. Sturm, you were arrested on April 5, 2019 at a fitness fair in Cologne for allegedly evading taxes worth millions.

How do you remember the day?

Sturm:

At home I said goodbye to my wife and children and said: I'll see you tonight.

Then suddenly people stood in front of me at the fair and said they had to talk to me, they had an arrest warrant for me.

At first I thought it was a joke.

Hidden camera or something.

Then I realized that the other people around me had all turned quite pale.

I knew then that it was serious.

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