Dutch police rule out crime in case of Brazilian woman who fell from building

Family suspects Brazilian woman’s boyfriend

The Brazilian woman’s family believes that Caroline fell while trying to escape her boyfriend. Only the two of them were in the apartment. In an interview with Facto NewsRyan Martins, 22, Caroline’s brother, said that family members were only informed of the death around 24 hours later, by the Brazilian’s own partner.

“I’m the only one who speaks English. He called and said she was upset and hysterical, he immediately blamed her, said she ran away from him, hung from the window of the fourth floor of the building where they lived and ended up slipping and falling “, detailed Ryan.

The pedagogue had lived in Europe for six years and worked as an attendant in Belgium. About five months ago, she decided to move to the Netherlands and live with her boyfriend, a 53-year-old Dutch man, identified by the Brazilian woman’s family as Edgar. Caroline’s brother stated that Caroline and Edgar had been together for three years, and met during one of his sister’s trips.

Ryan says he received an email from Breda police, around 36 hours after his sister’s death, stating that the police investigation had concluded. “They said that the cause of death was an accident, no crime. And that we were supposed to pay for the body’s transportation, just like that, they just asked how we were going to do it”, explained the teacher’s brother.

Brother says that her boyfriend had forbidden Caroline from working and that he was possessive. Friends of the Brazilian woman told her relatives in Brazil that the night before her death, the Brazilian woman was at a party with two friends. Her boyfriend wouldn’t have liked it and spent the night calling her.