Ekun Samuel, 7 November 2015, 2:30PM.
Popular Cable News Network "CNN" ran a story last month, on October 28 about the death of 24 year old woman Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, who was found dead in a cryotherapy tank in a Nevada spa.
CNN made an error as they ran the story with the picture of the former France international player while he used a similar machine which many high profile sportmen do use.
They immediately took off the picture, but that hasn't stop the world from noticing Frank Ribery associated with the death of a woman.
"It results from this publication that the photograph of Mr. Frank Ribery has been associated to a woman's death related to the cryotherapy treatment," Ribery's lawyer Carlo Alberto Brusa said.
"Mr. Franck Ribery, a world-famous professional soccer player and former member of the France national soccer team, has never given his permission and consent to the use of this photograph — and therefore of his image — related to the aforesaid publication."
Brusa said the use of the photo was an "illegal association, which constitutes an infringement of the personality rights and the French image right, is a wrongdoing for which you are responsible and which obliges you to repair all the damages suffered by Mr. Franck Ribery and his family following this morbid publication and the public reactions provoked".
Just maybe due to his series of injuries, and absenteeism from the game of football and duty to his club(Bayern), has prompt the Cable News Network (CNN) to mistake him for dead.
It's such a pathetic error on their path!
