A girl has been arrested in Brazil after she introduced a 68-year-old man who had been {dead} for hours right into a financial institution to signal for a mortgage.
Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the corpse into the financial institution in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro and instructed an worker that the person needed a mortgage for 17,000 reais (£2,600), safety digital camera video confirmed.
She then held a pen to the person saying: “Uncle, are you listening? You should signal,” in keeping with the footage.
“He would not say something, that is simply how he’s,” she mentioned, including: “If you happen to’re not okay, I’ll take you to the hospital.”
Financial institution workers quickly turned suspicious as the person’s head stored falling again so that they known as the police who arrested Nunes.
She was charged with vilification of a corpse and tried theft via fraud, in keeping with the Rio newspaper O Dia.
The person’s reason for dying is unknown.
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“She knew he was {dead}… he had been {dead} for a minimum of two hours,” Fabio Luiz Souza, an investigating officer instructed the breakfast information programme, Bom Dia Rio, on Wednesday.
“I’ve by no means come throughout a narrative like this in 22 years [as a cop].”
He mentioned police have been investigating whether or not Nunes was really associated to the person.
Her lawyer had argued that the person died on the financial institution however a police forensic evaluation decided he had died earlier, whereas mendacity down, Reuters reported.