Prosal Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 If you are a "rich" foreigner", watch your back and keep your wits about you, or you'll wind up joining the "Rich Foreigner Air Force" too, hiting the pavement seven stories below your apartment !! --------------------------------------------- Here's a good example recently of how things can go terribly wrong and the Brazilian dream becomes a hideous nightmare. Reto Franz Ullmann, a Swiss citizen, who worked as a language teacher, was thrown from the seventh floor of his apartment in Copacabana right in the heart of Rio de Janeiro's tourist district. A post mortem revealed that he had been tortured before being flung out of the window. He had been gagged, strangled with telephone wire, slashed with a knife and some of his fingers had been broken. For once the police were efficient and arrested two girls, one a teenager, who admitted being involved in the crime. One of them, Regina da Silva (an unemployed "manicurist"), was the man's long-term "girlfriend" who police say planned the killing to get hold of US$ 16,700 the victim had brought from Switzerland just two days previously. Killer Boyfriend Although the girl had been going around with the Swiss for three years, police say she had during this period a local boyfriend who was a convicted robber and drug trafficker. She tricked the Swiss into believed that a friend (her boyfriend) wanted German lessons and he entered the flat with her. She said her boyfriend attacked the older man because he would not reveal where the money was. She also claimed the victim had jumped out of the window. The boyfriend is still on the run and is believed to be hiding in the Morro São João favela in the north of the city where he is beyond the arms of the law. ------------------------------------------------- You can virtually never trust a Brazilian girl who wants something from you : the art of those kind of girls isn't really sex, it's lying ..... and Brazilian girls are world-class in this respect !! Anyway, hideous stories like that are surely countless wherever "rich foreigners" are richer than 80% of the population and are easy targets ..... :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli13 Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 hmm a bit stupid to have that a mount of cash lying around your flat & especially letting a local girl know about it :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 > some of his fingers had been broken.< Gives a whole new meaning to the word "mani curist" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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