Brazilian Prosecutor's Office Files Five Charges Against Chilean Executive Arrested for Racism on a Flight · Global Voices
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The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office accused Germán Naranjo of the crimes of endangering the safety of air transport, racist insults against airline employees and threats directed at the Federal Police officers who addressed him, in addition to contempt and resistance to authority.
The Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office denounced the Chilean citizen, Germán Naranjo, for making racist, xenophobic and homophobic insults during a Latam airline flight covering the São Paulo-Francfort route, official sources quoted by EFE reported on Wednesday. The defendant, ex-executive of the Landes fishing company, was arrested on 15 May at Guarulhos International Airport and since then is in pre-trial detention, according to the Federal …
The Chilean executive who was detained on May 15th at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo after making racist and homophobic comments on an airplane has been indicted by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF). The man insulted a flight attendant, saying he "smells like a Brazilian black person" and stating that being gay "is a problem." In a statement released after the incident, his defense claimed that the Chilean was out of his…
In addition to the crimes of attack against air transport security and racial injury, the passenger must respond to threats directed at the PF officers who addressed him.
What happened? Brazil's federal prosecutor's office formalized a five-crime complaint against Chilean engineer Germán Naranjo Maldini, 51, who has been detained since May in Guarulhos prison, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, after insulting with racist and homophobic terms a cabin crew member of a flight between that city and Frankfurt, in Germany.
The Brazilian prosecutor’s office—which charged the engineer with five crimes that included racial injury and endangering the safety of a flight—said that on May 15, when he returned to Brazil, he left for “the VIP lounge of the same airline at the airport, where he had previously uttered more insults, also of a racist nature, addressed this time to the cleaning staff.” His defense called the charges “absurdly exaggerated.”
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