 When incarcerated in June 2006, Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting with regard to the killing of Dirk Hamer that "I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]", leading to a call from Hamer's sister Birgit for Vittorio Emanuele to be retried in Italy for the killing.After a long legal fight, Birgit Hamer obtained the full video.The story was broken in the press by aristocratic journalist Beatrice Borromeo, who also wrote the preface for a book on the murder "Delitto senza castigo" by Birgit Hamer.