“He raised 6 children, and he never had to steal,” says the son of a woman who took his dead man to a bank in Rio for a loan of R$17,000 | amazing

This Sunday, Fantastico (21) heard exclusively about the arrest of Lucas Nunes dos Santos, son of Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, after taking a body in a wheelchair to try to withdraw a loan worth 17 thousand Brazilian reais at a bank branch in Pango, in the western region of Rio.

Erika was charged with attempted theft by fraud and defamation, which is disparagement of a person's body. According to Lucas, the woman is innocent.

“My mother raised six children, and she never needed to steal, and she never needed to deceive anyone to raise her six children. My mother guided her six children in this life, and she guided them very well, and she taught us the path of study, the path of what is right.”

He added: “Our life is going well and my mother has always been our biggest inspiration.”

Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes was caught red-handed, and during the week, her arrest was converted into a preventive detention.

“She went with him to the bank because she realized that he was in the last moment of his life, and before he died she tried to withdraw this money. (…) She saw the possibility of withdrawing this money, because this was the last opportunity she had to get money,” said Fabio Souza, the delegate. “This money.”

History of psychological problems

The family provided medical reports signed by the psychiatrists who treated Erica through the family health plan.

In 2022, a doctor requests that a patient be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. He said that she relies on tranquilizers, and suffers from depression, suicidal thoughts, and auditory hallucinations.

Last year, another psychiatrist requested hospitalization due to his addiction to sedatives and hypnotics.

In her statement to the police, Erika said that she noticed that her uncle stopped responding the moment he received help from the bank branch employees. The defense filed a request to cancel the pretrial detention, but there is no deadline for a response.

The representative in charge of the case responded by saying: “A person with a psychological problem may not understand that his uncle died, but he certainly will not understand that he had to get the money as well. A person cannot have a selective conscience.”

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