Brazilian for 20 years Margarida Bonetti lived in a dilapidated mansion in Sao Paulo, apparently hiding his slave-owning past in order to avoid FBI. His story, told in investigative journalism, now has a new chapter after disappearance “Abandoned House Woman”
The strange case that Brazil has been talking about for weeks goes back to the 1970s when Margarida Bonetti and her husband Rene emigrated to USA, taking with them domestic servants, whom they “received” as a “wedding gift” and who for two decades were kept in slave-like conditions.
A victim of physical and psychological attacks and imprisoned for years, the maid managed to escape with the help of some neighbors from the American town of Gaithersburg, Maryland, and her testimony served the FBI to investigate the couple.
Rene Bonety was sentenced to 6 years and 5 months in prison by the US justice system, while Margaretheiress of high rank, managed to escape to Brazilwhere he took refuge in a ruined family mansion, located in the wealthy district of Igienopolis with one of the most expensive square meters in the capital of São Paulo.
Most Popular Spotify Story
The romantic story was rescued by journalist Chico Felitti and told on the weekly podcast “Abandoned house woman”, from the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulowhich became the most popular media file in Brazil on the Spotify platform.
Per launch After the first episode a month ago, netizens have become more and more interested in life Margarida Bonettia sullen woman who scarcely left the house, and who, on the rare occasions when she was seen leaning out of a window, always did so with her face covered in white ointment.
The family mansion where he lived for years in self-imposed exile has in recent weeks become a place of pilgrimage for dozens of neighbors and onlookers who come to take pictures next to “House abandonedwhich today looks weedy and eaten away by the passage of time.
“In a podcast, we heard the story of a woman who raped another Brazilian in state joined and hid here. We came primarily out of curiosity,” said Murilo Sanz Efe, who approached the gate of a mansion built between the 1920s and 1930s with the phrase “Slave Master” painted on it with a friend.
“I approached because I was curious to know what it was like, if this is really what the media is telling (…) No one knows how true and what is a lie,” he added in statements ef courier Alexander Anglioto.
Under pressure from the media and the people, Bonetti He recently left the mansion and his whereabouts remain unknown, adding to the intrigue of a story that keeps part of the country in suspense.
According to local press reports, one of the Bonetti sisters informed the civilian police about San Paul that Margarida left the building after a bullet hit one of the windows of the mansion, a fact that is being investigated by the authorities.
The mysterious “woman from the abandoned house” was never tried for the facts in Brazil. For Felitti, the question that lies in knowing is “whether the United States sought help from Brazilian justice, or if Brazilian justice received a request and took no action.”
(EFE)
Source: RPP
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