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According to various sources, Hamer's son Dirk left Italy for resisting arrest. On August 17, 1978, Dirk was shot in the leg while sleeping under the deck of a yacht near the island of Corsica (Cavallo Island, France). Dirk Hamer was not the intended target, according to witnesses, the intended traget was Italian ''playboy doctor'' Nicky Pende. The bullet traveled across an anchored boat and finally perforated the external hull of a second motor-yacht where Dirk Hamer slept. The M1 rifle bullet was shot in the night by Italian aristocrat Vittorio Emanuele (son of Italy's last king Umberto II), who was drunk. He was upset because someone used his inflatable tender without asking for his permission. It was the son of his private physician who used this tender to return to his boat after a visit to a local restaurant. Vittorio Emanuele had dinner at the same restaurant, sitting in a nearby table. Dirk Hamer was hospitalized, first at a small Corsican clinic, then later taken to a hospital in Marseille, France where one of his legs were amputated. After a protracted medical course in Marseille and Heidelberg, Dirk Hamer died in Heidelberg on December 7, 1978. Hamer Sr had Dirk transported from Marseille to a clinic in Heidelberg against the explicit wishes of French surgeons in Marseille. On August 18, 1991, the Paris Assize Court ruled Vittorio Emanuele not guilty of homicide, he was only convicted of the illegal possession of a rifle and was sentenced to six months in prison. After Vittorio was sent to prison, in 2006, years afterward (in prison for an unrelated corruption charge), a camera bug was hidden inside his cell. In the recording Emanuele referenced the death of Dirk Hamer "[...] I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges] [..]". After his son's death, Hamer in newspaper articles said that Vittorio Emanuele had allegedly offered him 2 million DM (1 million Euro, about 1,5 million USD) to avoid any further legal proceedings. Later he said that as much as 10 million DM was offered to him. However, the two families decided on a payment of only 500,000 FF (french francs - which is much less) of which Vittorio Emanuele paid only 200,000 DM (100,000 Euro) and argued the intervention of Hamer Sr. to hospitalize his son in Germany as contributing to Dirk's death.

According to various sources, Hamer's son Dirk was expelled from Italy for 'resisting authorities'. On August 17, 1978, Dirk was shot in the leg while sleeping under the deck of a yacht near the island of Corsica (Cavallo Island, France). Dirk Hamer was not the intended target, according to witnesses, the intended traget was Italian ''playboy doctor'' Nicky Pende. The bullet traveled across an anchored boat and finally perforated the external hull of a second motor-yacht where Dirk Hamer slept. The M1 rifle bullet was shot in the night by Italian aristocrat Vittorio Emanuele (son of Italy's last king Umberto II), who was drunk. He was upset because someone used his inflatable tender without asking for his permission. It was the son of his private physician who used this tender to return to his boat after a visit to a local restaurant. Vittorio Emanuele had dinner at the same restaurant, sitting in a nearby table. Dirk Hamer was hospitalized, first at a small Corsican clinic, then later taken to a hospital in Marseille, France where one of his legs were amputated. After a protracted medical course in Marseille and Heidelberg, Dirk Hamer died in Heidelberg on December 7, 1978. Hamer Sr had Dirk transported from Marseille to a clinic in Heidelberg against the explicit wishes of French surgeons in Marseille. On August 18, 1991, the Paris Assize Court ruled Vittorio Emanuele not guilty of homicide, he was only convicted of the illegal possession of a rifle and was sentenced to six months in prison. After Vittorio was sent to prison, in 2006, years afterward (in prison for an unrelated corruption charge), a camera bug was hidden inside his cell. In the recording Emanuele referenced the death of Dirk Hamer "[...] I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges] [..]". After his son's death, Hamer in newspaper articles said that Vittorio Emanuele had allegedly offered him 2 million DM (1 million Euro, about 1,5 million USD) to avoid any further legal proceedings. Later he said that as much as 10 million DM was offered to him. However, the two families decided on a payment of only 500,000 FF (french francs - which is much less) of which Vittorio Emanuele paid only 200,000 DM (100,000 Euro) and argued the intervention of Hamer Sr. to hospitalize his son in Germany as contributing to Dirk's death.

Emanuele's wife, Princess Marina Doria, in an article of magazine Stern claimed that the families had agreed on a payment of 2 million DM, Hamer would have asked his daughter Birgit (who was present in Corsica as a witness) to make a legal statement in favour of Vittorio Emanuele during the prosecution. In 2006, Hamer made an illogical statement in relation to his son's death, claiming that his son had been killed in 1978 because of Hamer's New Medicine (however, this is impossible, as Hamer's New Medicine was first created in 1981, 3 years after Dirk's death) and claimed his son was a victim of a conspiracy against his pseudo-medical doctrine.

Emanuele's wife, Princess Marina Doria, in an article of magazine Stern claimed that the families had agreed on a payment of 2 million DM, Hamer would have asked his daughter Birgit (who was present in Corsica as a witness) to make a legal statement in favour of Vittorio Emanuele during the prosecution. In 2006, Hamer made an illogical statement in relation to his son's death, claiming that his son had been killed in 1978 because of Hamer's New Medicine (however, this is impossible, as Hamer's New Medicine was first created in 1981, 3 years after Dirk's death) and claimed his son was a victim of a conspiracy against his pseudo-medical doctrine.