When Brazilian police arrived at the home of Aylton Proença Doyle Linhares, in Rio de Janeiro, they made a chilling discovery.
The 58-year-old, who would be arrested for a complaint of sexual abuse against a minor, owned a vast collection of Nazi items worth an estimated $ 3.5 million.
Doyle Linhares was accused of trying to rape a 12-year-old boy in a condominium in Vargem Grande, west of Rio de Janeiro, according to the testimony of one of his neighbors, TV Globo and G1 Rio reported.
During the raid, the police found at least 1,000 objects linked to National Socialism
, the political doctrine established in Germany by Adolf Hitler, which triggered one of the most infamous genocides in history.
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Weapons and ammunition, flags, 12 uniforms, works of art, newspaper clippings from the 1950s and a document from the
Schutzstaffel
or SS, the Nazi party paramilitary group, with the suspect's photograph and information were found at the home.
Doyle Linhares had said that he was a "hunter of homosexuals", and although he is a fan of the Nazis, he denied that the Holocaust had occurred, as reported by the Reuters news agency.
Luis Armond, the police officer in charge of the case, assured that some of the items were acquired through auctions and that
Doyle Linhares, who comes from a wealthy family, would have used his inheritance to buy them.
Just one of the original uniforms of the time could cost about $ 288,876, authorities calculated.
Nazi document found in the home of Aylton Proença Doyle Linhares, a suspected pedophile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CIVIL POLICE RJ / via REUTERS
“We are going to deepen and verify the origin of this material.
How he bought it, if it was bought in Brazil or abroad and where does it come from, since he claims to participate in a Nazi party, "said Armond, who
described the suspect as a homophobic and psychopathic pedophile.
According to the newspaper O Globo, the document found reads
obergruppenführer
in German
, which in the SS was equivalent to the rank of general.
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"Let's unravel the issue"
Authorities said they will investigate his ties to supremacist groups and people who buy and sell such items.
Doyle Linhares is accused of trying to abuse other children in his condominium,
police said, who in addition to Nazi objects seized pedophile material.
"We are going to delve into the investigation and unravel, not only the origin, but also the issue of child abuse for which he was initially investigated," said Armond.
The suspect faces charges of illegal possession of weapons and racial discrimination
.
Meanwhile the police are looking for a safe place to store the seized objects.
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In 2012, the German authorities released secret Nazi documents indicating that some 9,000 military personnel and collaborators of the Third Reich
(as the Hitler era is known) took refuge in South America after the end of World War II.
It is estimated that
Brazil was home to between 1,500 and 2,000 war criminals
, and highlights the case of Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor known as the 'Angel of Death' who was one of the most wanted war criminals in the world.
Mengele was notorious for his notorious cruelty in the experiments he conducted on more than 3,000 twins from the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he killed and dissected hundreds of people.
According to his family, he drowned in 1979, on a beach in Sao Paulo.
With information from
Reuters
,
TV Globo, G1 Rio
and
BBC Mundo
.
