Boris Becker is now free, from prison and to speak. The tennis player has spent eight of the 30 months that he had to remain in prison in two different prisons. He was first taken to what is considered the worst in England, HMP Wandsworth, and then transferred to Huntercombe, where he has been for the last five months, he publishes daily ACE from Spain.
A much shorter time than he should have been for his crime of tax fraud (two and a half years), but after being released and deported to his native Germany, where he will be able to be closer to his mother, and where he will live with his partner, Lilian of Carvalho Monteiro, whom he intends to ask for in the near future.
Boris Becker, tennis legend, transferred to a more ‘friendly’ area in HMP Wandsworth prison, the least wanted in England
After leaving, Becker has given his first interview to the German television channel Sat 1. A talk in which the six-time Grand Slam champion has confessed what life was like for him in prison, what these months have been like and how he has come to receive death threats. “A prisoner named John told me that if he didn’t do this or that, he would kill me. He had tried it with others ”, he began by explaining.
Boris Becker extinction player sentenced to two years and six months in prison for financial crimes
“I met in confidence three prisoners who saved my life. In October another prisoner wanted to kill me and he explained to me exactly how he was going to do it. Luckily he had the support of those three comrades and this prisoner came to apologize, ”he added through tears.
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Some threats that turned his stay in jail into a real nightmare, and that is that he admits that he “went crazy”: “I had two big worries, a shared cell, I was fucking scared, and also taking a shower. The movies didn’t help me when you see the soap falling on the floor.”
About life in prison, Becker noted that you have to take care of yourself: “It’s extremely full, extremely dirty, extremely dangerous, with murderers, sexual offers, drug dealing, you know all kinds of things… You get out of your cell and you have to take care of yourself because the guards won’t do it for you”.
Jürgen Klopp tried to visit him in prison
In addition, Boris Becker has confessed that Jürgen Klopp tried to go see him, but the prison authorities refused his visit. “I am very good friends with Jürgen Klopp and he wanted to come visit me. I gave the names to the government, then the answer came that Jürgen could not visit me because he is too famous ”, he added. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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