SARAJEVO: Huge GRAPHITE in memory of Michael SCHUMACHER

A group of artists from Sarajevo will implement the project with assistance Goethe Institute, and graffiti is formed on the wall of a building in the neighborhood Airport settlementwhich is Schumacher visited after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, met with children there, talked to them, took photos and distributed gifts to them.

"As children, we watched Formula One, followed Schumacher and his masterpieces, he was our life idol," he says Benjamin Cengic, one of the authors of the graffiti. He explains that the idea of ​​it has existed for some time and that it was for both the authors and the management of the municipality New city important to choose an important person who is connected to the municipality and the city.

Michael Schumacher visited Sarajevo twice, and his visit was always of a humanitarian nature.

The seven-time world champion, who has been in a coma since 2013 after suffering a severe head injury, has visited Sarajevo twice as UNESCO Special Ambassador as part of a fundraising project for the treatment of war-injured children and victims of mines. Inhabitants Sarajevo his charity has never been forgotten, as it is, among other things also financed the equipment department for the manufacture of orthopedic appliances for children.

This is not the only one Sarajevo gift seven-time world champion who visited the venue of the 1984 Winter Olympics in 1996 and 1998. A petition to rename the street has been going on for some time A Transfer Hall v Michael Schumacher's transfer room.

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