A German diplomat was arrested in Brazil on suspicion of beating her husband to death.
Her Uwe Herbert Hahn, who works as a German consul in Rio de Janeiro, was accused of murdering her husband of 20 years before trying to cover up her crime. I was.
Hahn told police her Belgian husband, Walter Henri Maximilian Biot, died after falling and hitting his head from a combination of drinking and sleeping pills, police said.
But the diplomats failed, they said, when forensics revealed that Biot had, in fact, reportedly been savagely beaten.
He was found in the couple's apartment on the beach in Ipanema with numerous bruises "consistent with trampling injuries," the report said.
The body was also found to have "injury comparable to that of a cylindrical instrument attack," Constable Camila Lourenko was quoted as saying on her social media outlet.
That the victim fell contradicts the conclusions of the forensic report," said Mr. Lourenco of Rio de Janeiro XIV.
"The circumstances of the death are clear. The wounds on various parts of the body indicated that the death had been violent." Lorenco told reporters.
Diplomats said Bio was intoxicated when he suddenly stood up as if having a seizure.
``I don't think he fell on purpose. , it can be said that there were times when he panicked or got nervous.
"Sometimes he behaved strangely," he said.
The Chief Consul claimed that she thought she was only drunk when her husband collapsed and that she was unaware of the extent of her injuries.
"At first I thought he was drunk, so I actually took a picture of him and sent it to a friend and said, 'Walter is drunk again.'
"So I said, 'Now, Walter, get up, you must go to bed, you can't sleep there. And I saw blood.'" A week before his 53rd birthday, he was found dead in the house the couple shared.
The precinct's Instagram account shared photos online of what appeared to be blood. According to the Straits Times.
stains on the floor and furniture in the couple's apartment.
Brazilian media said Khan did not have diplomatic immunity, given the horrific nature of the crime.
