• Brazil The sordid crime in Rio de Janeiro once again shows the limits of diplomatic immunity

The Justice of

Rio de Janeiro

ordered this Monday that the German consul accused of murdering her husband be included in the

Interpol

fugitive list , one day after the diplomat embarked for Germany.

"Judge Gustavo Kalil received the complaint offered by the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro and ordered the preventive detention of the German consul

Uwe Herbert Hahn

, accused of the death of her husband, the Belgian

Walter Henri Maximilien Biot

on August 5", reported the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro (TJRJ) in a statement.

The magistrate "determined the inclusion of the consul's name on the Interpol fugitive list, based on the fact that the accused embarked on Sunday for Germany," the court added.

Hahn had been arrested on August 6, but a second-instance judge granted him habeas corpus last week, alleging that the deadline for the prosecution to offer a complaint had expired, and he

was released without handing over his passport

.

The prosecution, which denies that the legal term has expired, denounced him for homicide on Monday.

According to the investigation, Biot was killed in the attic where the couple lived, in the wealthy neighborhood of Ipanema.

The investigation concluded that Biot died after a "severe blow".

The prosecution claims that Hahn nurtured a "sense of possession" towards the victim, whom

he "subjugated financially and psychologically"

, preventing him from developing any degree of economic independence and friendships with other people.

Hahn told authorities her husband hit his head after a fall

.

According to local media, Hahn, who had been married to Biot for 20 years, tried to clean up the crime scene before police arrived, telling officers that her husband had been drinking heavily and taking sleeping pills."

The Civil Police [in charge of the investigations] are perplexed" with the return of the consul to Germany, commissioner Camila Lourenço told the newspaper O Globo.

"They could have determined an alternative precautionary measure to prison, such as the retention of the passport, which would have made it difficult for them to escape," he added.

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