The Brazilian Justice frees the German consul accused of killing her husband

MADRID, 28 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Brazilian Justice has ordered the release of the German consul Uwe Herbert Hahn, accused of having killed her husband, Walter Herni Biot, a Belgian national, in the neighborhood of Ipanema, in the south of Rio de Janeiro.

Judge Rosa Helena Penna Macedo has accepted the request of the suspect's defense, considering that there is a flagrant excess of time for the interposition of the sentence.

"Indeed, the patient has been in preventive detention since August 7, 2022 and, according to information extracted from the website of the Court of Justice, it is clear that as of today the complaint has not been filed, nine days after the due date. of the legal term of ten days", is stated in the judge's statement, collected by the Gaz news portal.

Earlier, on August 9, two days after the arrest, the same judge denied the diplomat's release, alleging that "there were no illegalities" in Hahn's imprisonment.

The consul was arrested on Sunday August 7 as a possible suspect in the death of her husband, whose body was in an apartment with thirty injuries that could correspond to sadomasochistic practices.

Biot, who had been married to Hahn for 23 years, died according to the autopsy of a subarachnoid hemorrhage, cranial contusion and traumatic brain injury caused by a blunt action, according to the Rio de Janeiro Medical-Legal Institute, quoted by the newspaper 'O Globo'. The body had 30 injuries such as ecchymosis, abrasions and other wounds on the arms, legs, trunk and head, for which the specialists consider that they are incompatible with a fall, as the German diplomat defends.

"The injuries are not typical of a fall from that height and are spread over various parts of the body, including so-called natural defense areas such as forearms, hands and legs, as well as fatal head injuries," a police spokeswoman said. Camila Lourenco. "Most of the wounds are recent bruises, but there are indications of some old ones as well," she said. "The type, format and distribution of these lesions suggest a practice of sadomasochism, so further investigation is needed," she argued.

The German diplomat notified the emergency services last Friday and assured that the Belgian had suffered a fall. She later told the agents that her husband took medication to sleep and that she used to drink a lot, almost every day.