Brazilian justice requested Monday, August 29 the registration of the German consul in Rio de Janeiro, accused of the murder of her husband, on the list of fugitives from Interpol, the day after the departure of the diplomat for Germany. In a statement, the Rio de Janeiro court says a judge ordered “the preventive detention of the German consul Uwe Herbert Hahn, accused of the murder of her husband, the Belgian Walter Henri Maximilien Biot on August 5”. The accused having “embarked on Sunday for Germany”the magistrate decided to “place him on the Interpol fugitive list”continues the court.
Uwe Herbert Hahn was detained on August 6, but was released last week on the grounds that the time allowed for the prosecution to file a complaint had expired, which the prosecution disputes. His passport had not been taken from him. According to investigators, the diplomat’s Belgian husband died after being “severely beaten” in the apartment where the couple lived, in the upscale neighborhood of Ipanema. Uwe Herbert Hahn, who claimed her husband hit his head when he fell, was allegedly nursing a “feeling of possession” with regard to the victim, that he “financially and psychologically subjugated”.
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The Brazilian police said to themselves “perplexed” before the return of the German diplomat to his country. “They could have taken an alternative measure to incarceration, such as withholding his passport, which would have made his escape more difficult”said Commissioner Camila Lourenço, quoted by the daily O Globo.