Police in Rio de Janeiro say they found a haul of Nazi memorabilia and weapons worth an estimated $3.5M at the home of a Brazilian man suspected of raping a minor.
Rio’s civil police said they found more than 1,000 items at the home of the 58-year-old unnamed suspect, including Nazi uniforms, periodicals, paintings, Nazi insignia, images of Adolf Hitler, flags and medals of the Third Reich.Official figures estimate the number of Jews in Brazil at about 120,000, corresponding to 0.06 percent of the population.
“He is a smart guy and articulate, but 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, told Reuters. “I’m no doctor, but he seems to me an insane psychopath.” Armond said the suspect came from a wealthy family of investors and likely had used his inheritance to build the collection. Armond estimated a high-ranking Nazi uniform would cost around $290,000.
Police are probing the suspect’s connection to Nazi and other far-right groups and trying to ascertain if he was active in the marketplace for such objects.“This is something that is totally unusual and shocking,” he said.
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