 He received a six-month suspended prison sentence.When incarcerated in June 2006, on unconnected charges of corruption (see below, ""Arrest and imprisonment""), Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting that "I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]", leading to a call from Dirk Hamer's sister Birgit for Vittorio Emanuele to be retried in Italy for killing her brother.Birgit Hamer undertook a long legal fight to the obtain the full video.