The body of the elderly Paulo Roberto Braga, 68 years old, “Uncle Paulo”, was buried this Saturday (20) at the Campo Grande Cemetery, in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Videos of the elderly man went viral when they showed Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, 42, carrying her supposedly dead uncle in a wheelchair, trying to get him to sign a document to withdraw R$17,000 from a loan.
The burial was a simple ceremony. According to Erika's lawyer, Ana Carla de Souza Correa, around 15 to 20 people showed up at the scene. Among them, family, friends, people from church, onlookers and the press. The defense confirmed to the CNN that the burial was free, a benefit from the city hall, “the family was unable to afford it”.
Remember the case:
A woman, identified as Érika de Souza Vieira, was detained this Tuesday afternoon (16) by the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro after taking a dead man in a wheelchair to the bank to withdraw a loan of R$17,000.
In the video, recorded by one of the bank's attendants, it is possible to see the corpse in the wheelchair, with the head being supported by the hand of the alleged niece. Erika calls the elderly man “Uncle Paulo”, but, in fact, she is the man’s cousin.
To take out the loan, Paulo had to sign a document, which was not possible since he was dead. Even so, Erika insists: “Uncle Paulo, are you listening? You need to sign. If you don't sign, there's no way. I can't sign for you, it has to be you. What I can do, I do.”
Even without the elderly man moving a finger, the supposed niece continues talking to the dead man, while trying to get the corpse's hand to pick up the pen: “It's kind of like the document here, look. Paulo Roberto Braga. You hold on, you hold on tight as hell to the chair there.”
Seeing that it was difficult to get her uncle's hand to pick up the pen, the niece asks the attendants: “Didn't he hold the door there?” Two female voices respond that they didn't see him hold it.
“Hold on, uncle. Sign so you don't give me any more headaches, having to go to the registry office. I can’t take it anymore”, continues Erika.
At that moment, the two attendants begin to intervene, “he’s not well, no”. That's when a fly lands on a man's nose. Erika begins to ask the corpse: “Are you feeling anything? But he doesn’t say anything!” The attendants repeat that the man does not appear to be well, “his color is not staying…”. Erika responds by saying that her uncle is like that.
The niece ends the video by asking her dead uncle: “If you don't get well, I'm going to take you to the hospital. Do you want to go to UPA again?”
Source: CNN Brasil
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