Brazilian police said they killed her husband on Saturday at his home in an upmarket neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro and committed the crime. Arrested a German diplomat for trying to cover up.
According to police, German consul girlfriend Uwe Herbert Hahn told authorities that his husband, Belgian national girlfriend Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, fell ill on Friday night and collapsed on her knees. He said he hit his head and was fatally injured.
But an analysis of the corpse and the couple's beachfront apartment in Ipanema showed that Biot had been severely beaten, they said.
In a comment posted on his media by Rio de Janeiro's 14th Police Department, police officer Camila Lorenco said, "The consul's account of the victim's fall is not the conclusion of the forensic report." contradicts," he said. District.
"Various bruises were found, including on the torso. It's a corresponding injury," she added.
"The corpse cries out about the circumstances of its death."
A photo of what appeared to be blood stains on the floor and furniture of the couple's apartment was posted on the district's Instagram account.
According to Brazilian media reports, Hahn would not have diplomatic immunity given the nature of the crime. Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
According to local media reports, Hahn, who had been married to Bio for 20 years, found her husband drinking heavily and taking sleeping pills after attempting to clear the scene of the death before police arrived. he told the police.
The German embassy did not immediately respond to requests for information. We are in close contact," a source at the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday.
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