The video of a woman taking her dead uncle to the bank to ask for a loan shocked the world. The episode took place on Tuesday afternoon, April 16, in a bank branch in Bangú, a populous neighborhood located in the western area of
Rio de Janeiro
, Brazil.
The first images that were known showed
Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes
(42) in front of a desk trying to withdraw a loan in the name of the deceased,
Paulo Roberto Braga
(68), who was sitting in a wheelchair next to her.
A bank employee filmed the situation and, finally, the woman was
arrested
and formally accused of
vilification of a corpse
and
attempted theft by fraud
, the city's Civil Police reported.
Now, in addition to that video, the moment in which de Souza
arrives at the scene
and carries the body from a car to the offices has gone viral.
How the woman got to the bank with her dead uncle
Thanks to the
security cameras,
the exact moment in which Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes arrives at the bank branch with the deceased elderly man was recorded.
In the recording you can see her looking for a
wheelchair
in the parking lot of a shopping center so she can move the body.
Then, with the help of who is believed to be
a driver
for an application he used, he takes him out of the passenger seat with
difficulty
and places him in the chair trying to support his head, which tends to tilt.
A
couple
passing by observes the situation; The man approaches her pointing to her corpse and says something to Erika de Souza, but that did not change the situation.
After that moment, she boards an
elevator
and is seen carrying the body through the
halls
of the place towards the bank. At all times she pushes the wheelchair as if nothing was happening, while she tries to keep her uncle's body as straight as possible.
Although upon being detained, the woman - who claims to be Braga's niece and caretaker - maintained that her uncle was alive upon arrival,
these videos prove the opposite
.
In addition, the experts reported that, due to the rigidity and symptoms he presented, the man would have died at least two hours before the episode.
What was the case of the woman who took her dead uncle to the bank?
Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes tried to complete the procedures for a loan for
17,000 reais (about $3,200)
that the man had requested virtually and withdraw the money.
In some moments of the first video that went viral, the supposed niece insists that her uncle
sign the documentation
to be able to complete the procedures and leave and
manipulates his hands
so that he grabs a pen and tries to sign.
"Man, you have to sign. The man has to sign. I can't sign for the man. The man has to hold the pen tightly and sign here
," says the woman while
moving the corpse's hands
in front of the bank employees, who They insist on warning that the man is having a bad time and is very pale.
The bank employees were alarmed by what they considered to be
the serious health condition
of the loan applicant and called the emergency services, who confirmed the death.
Civil Police Commissioner Fábio Souza, responsible for the investigation, stated that he has already asked the Justice Department to order the definitive arrest of the accused and that he is trying to establish if she had any
accomplices
.