Greek ambassador to Brazil killed by wife's lover, police say

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>RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Brazil believe that Greece's ambassador to the country was killed by his wife's lover under her orders in a house in the Rio area and have detained three suspects, authorities said Friday.

>Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis went missing on Monday in Nova Iguacu, a city just north of Rio de Janeiro, where the ambassador had been vacationing. The couple lived most of the time in the capital of Brasilia.

>On Friday, police investigator Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes said that 29-year-old police officer Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho had confessed to killing Amiridis, alleging self-defense.

>Investigators said Filho knew Amiridis, who wasn't aware of the affair he was having with the ambassador's 40-year-old wife, Francoise Amiridis.

>Magalhaes said Filho's cousin, Eduardo de Melo, acknowledged taking part in the killing as a lookout. The cousin accused Francoise of offering him the equivalent of $25,000 to participate.

>Francoise has denied that she was involved in the plot. According to Magalhaes, Francoise said she couldn't stop Filho from killing her husband and insisted she was not at home at the time of the crime.

>But the police investigator said in a press conference late Friday that the "evidence clearly puts the ambassador's wife as a co-author of the crime."

>He said Francoise started plotting with Filho to kill the ambassador after the couple had a serious fight three days before Christmas.
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