Brazil: Body found in hunt for missing Greek ambassador

 

 

Brazilian police looking for the missing Greek ambassador to the country have found a body inside a burnt-out car.

 

Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was last seen on Monday evening, reportedly visiting friends in a Rio de Janeiro suburb. The Nova Iguacu district is described as poor and violent.

 

 

A Rio state police official said the ambassador’s Brazilian wife reported him as missing on Wednesday.

The ambassador’s burnt-out rental car was found under a flyover in the neighbourhood and forensic tests are underway to establish the identity of the body inside. But police suspect it is that of the Greek ambassador, television channel Globo reported.

 

Rio police inspector Evaristo Pontes earlier told the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper that he did not believe the ambassador had been kidnapped.

 

“We’re following some leads, but not that one. If it had been (a kidnapping), those who took him would have made contact by now,” he said.

 

Amiridis previously served as Greece’s consul general in Rio from 2001 to 2004.

 

More recently he was Greece’s ambassador to Libya from 2012 until he took the top Brazil post at the beginning of 2016.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-12-31

 

would be interesting to know the details.  What friends did he allegedly go to see, when and where exactly and why? What route would one typically travel to get there?  A car hijacking and theft gone wrong?  Out redlighting and ran into a lot more than he bargained for?  Why was the wife not with him?  Why the rental car?  Was it a long term rental for the job or one he had just gotten for some reason?

Brazil policeman 'killed Greek envoy' at wife's request

9 hours ago, Sphere said:

Brazil policeman 'killed Greek envoy' at wife's request

RIP Love and hate walk a pretty thin line at times. 

9 hours ago, Sphere said:

Brazil policeman 'killed Greek envoy' at wife's request

 

The thought did cross my mind. If i was a copper id be looking at her first too 

Terrible photo, he looks just like that Australian ex PM that ruined the country. R.I.P. 

16 minutes ago, lungnorm said:

Terrible photo, he looks just like that Australian ex PM that ruined the country. R.I.P. 

Bob Menzies?

2 hours ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

Bob Menzies?

Nope Kevin Rudd

20 minutes ago, lungnorm said:

Nope Kevin Rudd

Who?

Just now, SaintLouisBlues said:

Who?

Kevin 07 he was labor PM from 2007 till he got stabbed in the back. He then stabbed the person who stabbed him in the back and regained the PM's job. 

21 minutes ago, lungnorm said:

Kevin 07 he was labor PM from 2007 till he got stabbed in the back. He then stabbed the person who stabbed him in the back and regained the PM's job. 

You mean like Malcolm Turnbull or Peter Costello would have been if he'd had the ticker or Malcolm Fraser when he helped push out John Gorton, thus making the hapless Billy McMahon prime minister?