Brazilian Lucinete Freitas, 55, has been missing in Portugal since December 6. She allegedly went to view a property in the Algarve and stopped responding to messages and calls.
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Her husband, José Teodoro, 41, stayed in Fortaleza with their teenage son and had planned to meet Lucinete earlier this year. He spoke to his wife the day before he disappeared.
At the Portugal Giro he said that yesterday (15) he was at the consulate in Fortaleza trying to get his passport back so he could closely follow the investigation.
— I went to see if they would release my passport so I could travel quickly. They said they would allow it, but I have to prove a ticket I haven’t purchased yet because it’s an expensive resource, he said.
Lucinete works as a nanny in Amadora, a town in the Lisbon metropolitan area. It was its subcontractors who informed the Public Security Police (PSP).
José said if her work-seeking visa had been approved in April, she probably wouldn’t have disappeared. Your request has been refused. His, approved:
— The visa was refused due to housing problems, according to them. But his has passed. Anti-immigration laws have changed visas for skilled workers only. I was unable to check in.
Today he is trying to enter legally on a student visa and says he is pursuing professional training.
— I’m taking all the right paths, but it’s hopeless — he said.
With a background in IT and logistics, José planned to quickly find work in Portugal. He thought Lucinete in Portugal would be safer than him in Brazil:
— It was riskier for me to get shot here than for her to disappear there. I never imagined, I thought I was safe.
The Brazilian said he requested help from the public security police, the consulate and the Brazilian embassy in Lisbon.
— It’s very formal, but it’s a life we’re talking about. I just hope you’re okay, alive,” he concluded.
Lucinete is the second Brazilian missing in Portugal. Francisca Maria Santos, 44, was last seen almost six months ago on June 20.
The artist Antônio José, the Brazilian’s brother, who worked in a restaurant in Tabuaço, went to Portugal to look for his sister and collaborated in the investigations of the judicial police.
Despite the support he said he received, José criticized the delay in the initial response to the disappearance. The PJ searched Francisca’s partner’s house, but revealed no details.
SMS and emails were allegedly deleted from the Brazilian’s computer, which was handed over to the PJ, according to José, who was blackmailed by an alleged kidnapper.
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