Brazil arrests German diplomat for killing husband, trying to cover up crime
- Uwe Herbert Hahn told authorities his husband suffered a fatal fall at their Rio home but forensic analysis revealed he had been severely beaten
- Hahn also tried to clean up the scene of death before police arrived
Brazilian police said they arrested a German diplomat Saturday for allegedly killing his Belgian husband at their home in Rio de Janeiro, then attempting to cover up the crime.
Uwe Herbert Hahn, a consul at Germany’s consulate in Rio de Janeiro, told authorities his husband, Belgian national Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, had taken ill Friday night, collapsing and fatally hitting his head, police said.
However, analysis of the body and the couple’s flat in the upscale beach neighbourhood of Ipanema found Biot had been severely beaten, they said.
“The version of events given by the consul, that the victim suffered a fall, is incompatible with the conclusions of the forensics report,” officer Camila Lourenco said in comments posted on social media by Rio de Janeiro’s 14th police precinct.
“It found various bruises, including on the torso, compatible with injuries inflicted by stomping, as well as lesions compatible with an attack with a cylindrical instrument,” she added.
“The cadaver is screaming out the circumstances of its death.”