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The walk of shame: Wife of Greek ambassador to Brazil hides
her face as she is transferred to jail after 'having her husband murdered by
her policeman lover' in 'crime of passion'
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Francoise Souza Oliveira, 40,
was transferred from the police station to a jail in Belford Roxo, Brazil on
Saturday
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Her lover officer
Sergio Moreira, 29, confessed to police on Friday that he killed her ambassador
husband late Monday night in Rio, investigators said
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Kyriakos Amiridis had
mysteriously vanished on Monday night in Rio de Janeiro
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Officers believe the
ambassador was likely stabbed to death and that his body was burned
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A charred corpse was found on
Thursday evening inside the car that Amiridis and his wife had rented
The wife of
the Greek ambassador to Brazil hid her face Saturday as she was taken to jail,
as authorities suspect her of having her husband murdered by her policeman
lover.
Francoise Souza Oliveira, 40, held a shirt
over her head while officers escorted her out of the police station to a jail
in Belford Roxo, Brazil. Her transfer came the day after her Officer
Sergio Moreira, with whom she was romantically involved, confessed to police he
had killed her husband, according to investigators.
Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, went
missing on Monday night. Oliveira, his Brazilian wife and the mother of their
10-year-old daughter, reported him missing to police on Wednesday.
But authorities now believe that 29-year-old
Moreira killed Amiridis in a 'crime of passion' at Oliveira's direction. They
said the ambassador was likely stabbed in the Rio De Janeiro home he owned with
his wife, and that his body was burnt afterwards.
Oliveira and Moreira were both taken into custody on
Friday. Police have also detained a cousin of the officer, who
investigators believe acted as a lookout while the crime was committed and
helped carry the body from the house with the promise that he would be paid
$25,000.
Moreira and
Oliveira had arranged the murder a few days in advance, according to
investigator Evaristo Magalhaes.
'This was a tragic, cowardly act, but we
worked tirelessly to crack this case as soon as possible,' Magalhaes told a
news conference. 'It was a crime of passion.'
Magalhaes said
that blood was found on a couch inside the home and the ambassador was likely
stabbed to death as no shots were reported in the area.
However, he said it was not yet possible to
determine the exact cause of death because the policeman had burned the
ambassador's body in an attempt to cover up the crime.
A burned
corpse was found on Thursday evening inside the car that Amiridis and his wife
had rented. It was parked under a highway overpass in the area where the couple
had been staying.
On Thursday, police confirmed that the
ambassador had been missing since Monday night, when he was last seen leaving
the Rio home he shared with his wife, which was located near her family's
residence in Nova Iguacu.
Brazilian President Michel Temer, in a letter
addressed to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, said the ambassador's killing
had caused him profound sadness and he extended his condolences to the
ambassador's family, friends and the Greek people.
The Greek embassy in Brasilia declined to
comment. In Athens, Greek foreign ministry spokesman Stratos Efthymiou said the
government also had no comment.
Amridis, who
took over as Greece's ambassador to Brazil in January this year, was Greek
consul in Rio de Janeiro for three years from 2001, where he met his wife.
Before returning to Brazil, he was also the
Greek ambassador in Libya for four years from 2012.
Crime in Rio has been rising and the state is
deeply indebted, often unable to pay police and other salaries on time, if at
all.
The neighborhood where the car was found is
dominated by powerful and politically connected armed groups comprised mostly
of off-duty or retired police and firefighters who control vast areas.
They often extort residents in exchange for
keeping drug gangs from taking over the areas.
The armed groups have grown for several years
and often curry favor with local politicians by promising to deliver votes from
entire neighborhoods as long as authorities allow them to carry out their
crimes.
The Nova Iguacu area of Metropolitan Rio,
where Mr Amiridis and his wife were passing the Christmas holidays, is
notorious for crime and its high murder rate.
In April this year Brazilian senator Aureo
Riberito was kidnapped by four armed men in the same region and later released.
In October the well-known president of the
Belford Roxo samba school, Reginaldo Gomes, was also kidnapped by four armed
men on a street in Nova Iguacu. The gang also later released him after stealing
money and his car.
In the run up to Brazil's municipal elections,
at least 14 politicians were murdered in the region in nine months, blamed on
death squads operating in the region.
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