He emigrated to Brazil in early 2019 and regretted this step. Now the Swiss Aristo D. * († 59) is dead. He was killed in the city of Goianésia, northwest of the Brazilian capital Brasilia.
The motive: obviously money. As reported by the Brazilian media, he is said to have owed his killer Raí R. * (27) the equivalent of around 1970 francs.
The exact background is still unclear. The fact is: the man from Zurich was unhappy in Brazil.
Custody battle for his son
Desperate, he turned to Blick that summer with a cry for help. At the time it was about his two-year-old son. Because in Brazil there was a custody battle with his Brazilian mother-in-law. The dispute broke out after the death of his Brazilian wife. She died of cancer in November 2020. And Aristo D. just wanted to leave. Back to Switzerland – together with his son.
The Swiss was ashamed of his situation and the debts that had accumulated as a result of the legal dispute with lawyers. Blick had therefore reported anonymously on the fate of Aristo D. alias Beat W. and was also in contact with the Swiss Embassy in Brazil and the Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in Bern.
In September he answered with joy
Something happened after the report. From August onwards, Aristo D. received around 200 francs a month from the Swiss authorities as support for his living expenses. Then he contacted Blick again at the beginning of September. With good news: his son is finally with him.
The court granted him custody. But: the legal dispute was not yet over, and the Swiss man and his child were not able to travel back to Switzerland from Brazil for that long.
Son is back with the grandmother
With the murder of the Swiss, the affair in Brazil came to a tragic end. How things will go on with the Swiss boy, who is now an orphan, is still unclear.
The Swiss authorities have not yet received any official confirmation from the local authorities about the death of Aristo D. * and, accordingly, no information about the killing offense or the police investigation. According to the information from the FDFA, the Swiss child should be back in the care of the Brazilian grandmother, who fought for custody of the child against the Swiss. That is exactly what Aristo D. wanted to prevent for his little son.