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Chilean Executive Detained in Brazil for Racist and Homophobic Insults to Latam Flight Attendant

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Chilean executive Germán Naranjo Maldini has been held since Friday 15 May at the Guarulhos prison on the outskirts of São Paulo, charged with racial slur after directing racist and homophobic insults at a flight attendant of the airline Latam during a flight between São Paulo and Frankfurt on 10 May. The Chilean fishing company Landes, where he served as commercial manager, formally and preventively removed the executive from his position follow

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Chilean executive Germán Naranjo Maldini has been detained since last Friday 15 in Brazil, in Guarulhos prison, near São Paulo, after speaking racist and homophobic insults during a flight, on May 10, from São Paulo to Frankfurt, against a crew member on the plane of the airline Latam. The attacks were reported in a video during this weekend. Meanwhile, the Landes company, where he worked in Chile as commercial manager, took him away from his po…

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Germán Naranjo, commercial manager of Landes fishing, issued racist and homophobic statements on a flight between Sao Paulo and Frankfurt, so he was arrested by the Brazilian police. He now waits for a key decision for his judicial future.

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Germán Naranjo Maldini's lawyer, the Chilean arrested in Brazil after leading a serious episode of racism, homophobia and...

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Chilean executive Germán Naranjo Maldini, arrested in Brazil after being accused of racist, xenophobic and homophobic offenses against a flight attendant of LATAM Airlines, has a history of other episodes involving investigations and trials in Chile, according to information released by the Chilean newspaper Diario Financio. The most recent case occurred on a flight between São Paulo and Frankfurt. According to investigations, Maldini would have…

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He was born in Rancagua, where he studied at the English Institute. He then studied engineering. His curriculum at Linkedin records that he has held several managerial positions. His website in the Judiciary shows a darker facet: a 2013 complaint, which the prosecution decided not to investigate, saying that he had planted a bomb at the W Hotel to “kill all Muslims” and a lawsuit, last year, for trying to bribe civil registry officials.

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BioBioChile broke the news in Chile on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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