A shocking new video shows a Brazilian woman pushing an emaciated man in a wheelchair, just a day before she carried his body to a bank.
CCTV footage allegedly captured in Rio de Janeiro on April 15 in front of a door to the Emergency Care Unit in Bangu showed Roberto Braga, 68, alive and being pushed by Erika de Souza.
He could be seen shaking his head and waving his arm as Souza, 42, struggled to push the elderly man toward the door.
At one point in the video, a man in a black T-shirt is seen approaching the couple and speaking to Braga before Souza intervened and began readjusting his wheelchair.
In the end, he successfully pushed the old man into the door while he rested his head on the chair.
CCTV footage reportedly captured in Rio de Janeiro on April 15 outside a door to the Emergency Care Unit in Bangu showed Braga, 68, alive as Souza carried him in a wheelchair.
He could be seen shaking his head and waving his arm as a 42-year-old man struggled to push the elderly man toward the door.
At one point in the video, a man wearing a black T-shirt can be seen approaching the couple and speaking to Braga before Souza intervenes and begins to readjust his wheelchair.
In the end, he manages to push the old man inside the door while he rests his head on the chair.
According to a Brazilian publication Forum MagazineBraga entered medical care on April 8 and was discharged the same day the security camera images were recorded.
Despite being released from the hospital safely, a day later Souza was seen pushing Braga’s body towards a bank teller’s desk and attempting to withdraw 17,000 reais (about $3,200).
Employees at the bank branch became concerned about De Souza’s actions as she tried to get the lifeless Braga to sign a document and called the police, who arrested her at the scene.
The head of Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police, Fábio Souza, told Brazilian outlet G1 on Wednesday that while he could not provide the exact moment Braga died, the corpse stains that were visible on the back of his head indicate that he would have been dead for approximately two hours. .
Souza was detained by Rio de Janeiro authorities on Tuesday after trying to get her deceased uncle, Paulo Braga, to sign a loan document at a bank while he was sitting in a wheelchair.
Souza was seen on surveillance video pushing a wheelchair with the lifeless body of her uncle, Paulo Braga, before attempting to withdraw $3,200 from his bank account.
Footage showed Souza telling a dead Braga to hold onto his pen tightly as she placed it between his fingers and encouraged him to sign a paper at the bank branch in Bangu, a neighborhood in western Rio de Janeiro.
If Braga had died while sitting in the wheelchair, the body patches would have been located on his legs, authorities said.
“It is not possible to say the exact moment of death,” said Fábio. ‘Samu (Mobile Emergency Assistance Service) discovered that there was (livor mortis). This only occurs from the moment of death, but is only noticeable about two hours after death.’
Fábio said officers were deployed to search for the ride-sharing app driver who left Souza with his dead uncle at the bank.
The defendant, who faces charges of attempted theft by fraud and defamation of a corpse, was interviewed Wednesday morning by authorities.
She told police that Braga had died while sitting in a wheelchair on the bench, a claim police are disputing.
“In my 22 years of career I have never seen a story like this,” Fábio said.
Customers and bank workers initially thought Braga was sick, the police chief said, before calling an ambulance.
A viral video recorded by a bank employee showed De Souza holding Braga’s head and telling him: ‘Dude, are you listening? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you.
The bank employees began filming the couple and ended up calling an ambulance and the police, while Érika de Souza used her hand to hold Paulo Braga’s head up and said: ‘Man, are you listening? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you’
Erika de Souza took her dead uncle Paulo Braga through a Rio de Janeiro shopping center before visiting a bank, where she tried to get him to sign a loan document.
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are investigating whether Érika de Souza is really related to Paulo Braga, the 68-year-old man whose lifeless body was placed in a wheelchair and taken to a bank in his attempt to obtain a loan.
One of the bank workers then told De Souza: ‘I don’t think this is legal. It doesn’t look good. He is very pale.
“He is like that,” she replied and told her dead uncle, “If you are not well, I can take you to the hospital.” Do you want to go back to the hospital again?
Then De Souza told Braga: ‘Sign so I don’t give myself any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore.’
‘She calls herself his niece. In fact, according to our investigation, she is somewhat related,” she stated. And she calls herself his caretaker. We want to identify other members of the family,” said Fábio.