During the broadcast of one of his newscasts with the highest audience, the Globo TV channel exhibited a reportage in which he addresses the issue of express kidnapping of Brazilians in the Ciudad del Este areaDepartment of Alto Paraná.
In audiovisual material, which includes testimonials from some victimsthe modus operandi of the criminals is exposed: they pose as fake “guides” to help Brazilian tourists who are going shopping and, at a given moment, They take them to a place where they extort money and force them to hand over money.
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Iván Airaldi, member of the Alto Paraná Chamber of Commercewarned about the consequences that this warning could bring to Brazilians, since there is the possibility of that tourism in the departmental capital be discouraged.
“This report is disastrous for us because (Globo) is one of the most important and reference media in Brazil. This news is going to hurt future tourists who may come too much because they are going to come with fear”, he expressed to Radio Ñanduti.
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He recalled that, as a result of this scourge, recently confirmed an inter-institutional team that includes the National Police and the Prosecutor’s Office whose objective is to fight against these criminal acts in Ciudad del Este.
The entrance Brazilian TV warns about wave of express kidnappings of tourists in CDE was first published on newspaper TODAY.
