Brazil police find $3 million Nazi haul at home of child abuse suspect
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro mentioned Wednesday they’d discovered a haul of Nazi memorabilia and weapons price an estimated $3.5 million on the dwelling of a Brazilian man suspected of raping a minor.
Rio’s civil police mentioned they discovered greater than 1,000 objects on the dwelling of the 58-year-old unnamed suspect, together with Nazi uniforms, periodicals, work, Nazi insignia, photographs of Adolf Hitler, flags and medals of the Third Reich.
Additionally they discovered weapons and ammunition from the period.
The haul was found after police went to the person’s dwelling to serve an arrest warrant on suspicions he had raped a minor and abused different kids in his condominium within the west of the town. The suspect was additionally charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and racial discrimination.
“He is a great man and articulate, however he’s a Holocaust denier, he’s homophobic, he’s a pedophile and he says he hunts homosexuals,” Luis Armond, the lead detective on the case, instructed Reuters. “I’m no physician, however he appears to me an insane psychopath.”
Armond mentioned the suspect got here from a rich household of buyers and certain had used his inheritance to construct the gathering. Armond estimated a high-ranking Nazi uniform would price round $290,000.
Police are probing the suspect’s connection to Nazi and different far-right teams and making an attempt to establish if he was energetic within the market for such objects.
Armond mentioned a museum would have to be discovered for the gathering.
“That is one thing that’s completely uncommon and stunning,” he mentioned.
Related Press contributed.