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by Moter8 3258 days ago
ETH Balance: 43,432.963 ...

is the important figure. At the bottom you can see the transactions coming in.

First incoming transaction seems to be from Jul-17-2017 01:01:21 PM. View all > last page.

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Over €6,000,000 at current prices.
And over €12,000,000 at the price 2 weeks ago.

Who knows what the price will be next week, but it won't be anywhere near €6,000,000 if they try to sell that much at once.

Though, the 24 hour trading volume for ETH is $1.5 Billion USD. So it won't affect the price as much as you'd think.
$1.5 Billion, made up of many smaller transactions (~USD 15.5k on average according to this site [0]).

A number of large transactions to convert that much ETH to USD, would significantly affect speculator confidence, triggering others to sell.

0: https://bitinfocharts.com/ethereum/