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| Brazil police name Greek ambassador's wife as suspect over his death | Brazil police name Greek ambassador's wife as suspect over his death |
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| Authorities in Brazil believe that the Greek ambassador, who went missing last week, has been killed, and have named his Brazilian wife, a police officer and two others as suspects in the case. | Authorities in Brazil believe that the Greek ambassador, who went missing last week, has been killed, and have named his Brazilian wife, a police officer and two others as suspects in the case. |
| Brazil’s TV Globo reported that police had identified the body found in a burnt-out car near a main road as that of Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, who was reported missing by his wife Françoise Oliveira, on Wednesday. | Brazil’s TV Globo reported that police had identified the body found in a burnt-out car near a main road as that of Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, who was reported missing by his wife Françoise Oliveira, on Wednesday. |
| TV news reports showed her arriving at a police station for questioning. | TV news reports showed her arriving at a police station for questioning. |
| According to TV Globo and its G1news website, Oliveira told police that Amiridis had left the condominium where the couple were staying in Nova Iguaçu, a working-class town 25 miles inland from Rio de Janeiro, on the night of 26 December without saying where he was going. The couple had been together 15 years, and have a 10-year-old daughter, the network said. | |
| Police investigator Giniton Lages told Associated Press that blood stains believed to be from the ambassador were found on a sofa inside the home of his wife. Police believe she was having an affair with a police officer, the new agency reported. G1 named the officer and said he had confessed to the crime. It is not clear what the two other people who have been detained are suspected of. A police press conference was scheduled for Friday afternoon. | Police investigator Giniton Lages told Associated Press that blood stains believed to be from the ambassador were found on a sofa inside the home of his wife. Police believe she was having an affair with a police officer, the new agency reported. G1 named the officer and said he had confessed to the crime. It is not clear what the two other people who have been detained are suspected of. A police press conference was scheduled for Friday afternoon. |
| Amiridis began his career in 1985 at the Greek foreign ministry and was Greek consul in Rio from 2001-2004. He became Greece’s ambassador to Libya in 2012 and returned to Brazil as an ambassador earlier this year. | |
| Hildegard Angel, 67, a Rio-based journalist, said Amiridis had been a good friend and a popular figure at dinners and parties while he lived in the city. “He was a very interesting man,” she said. “A man of the world. Agreeable, sociable, informed. You wanted to go to Greece talking to him.” | Hildegard Angel, 67, a Rio-based journalist, said Amiridis had been a good friend and a popular figure at dinners and parties while he lived in the city. “He was a very interesting man,” she said. “A man of the world. Agreeable, sociable, informed. You wanted to go to Greece talking to him.” |
| But Angel said nobody had known he was married when he lived in Rio. “In refined society in Rio de Janeiro he was invited to everything. He always circulated alone. He was a bachelor, always invited to dinners,” she said. | But Angel said nobody had known he was married when he lived in Rio. “In refined society in Rio de Janeiro he was invited to everything. He always circulated alone. He was a bachelor, always invited to dinners,” she said. |
| Angel said she first discovered he was married after media reports of a robbery at his house referred to a wife. She added that she first met Oliveira in February when the couple were invited to the Carnival Ball, an annual high society event held at the upscale Copacabana Palace, which this year had an ancient Greek theme. | Angel said she first discovered he was married after media reports of a robbery at his house referred to a wife. She added that she first met Oliveira in February when the couple were invited to the Carnival Ball, an annual high society event held at the upscale Copacabana Palace, which this year had an ancient Greek theme. |