Overview
- Halmich told Bild that a man has followed her for about one and a half years, sending repeated love letters and tracking her even when she traveled abroad.
- She says she now knows the stalker’s name and appearance but has not filed a police report.
- Halmich reported specific incidents in which the man sat on the same plane and stayed in the same hotel as her, which she only noticed after the fact.
- German law already allows criminal charges for persistent stalking under §238 StGB and court-ordered contact or proximity bans under the Gewaltschutzgesetz, though Halmich said she believes police often act only after an incident occurs.
- She has delayed posting travel locations and shielded her private life on social media, will discuss the experience in an upcoming memoir for her 50th birthday, and says she refuses to be controlled or defined as a victim.