Panic overtook a massage parlor in Lausanne, Switzerland, one evening last summer. Étienne*, a customer in his fifties, suffered a heart attack there. It was around 10:30 p.m. when a prostitute discovered the man’s lifeless body lying on the ground. His cries alerted other commercial sex workers, who rushed to Étienne’s bedside. The emergency services were notified at 10:41 p.m.
Meanwhile, Isabela*, an illegal Brazilian prostitute, noticed that the man no longer had a pulse. She attempted a cardiac massage, but as the occasion failed, her eyes were drawn to a necklace and a gold ring that the victim was wearing. Despite the imminent danger of death hanging over Étienne, she interrupted her cardiac massage for a few moments to steal the jewelry before the arrival of emergency services, who arrived seven minutes later.
Emergency services temporarily managed to restart Étienne’s heart, who was then transported to hospital, before dying there two days later. In the meantime, Isabela had presented the stolen jewelry to a friend’s store to estimate its value. Except that the deceased’s son had already noticed, with horror, that the gold necklace and ring that never left his father’s side had disappeared. The police followed the trail back to Isabela and the stolen jewelry was found at the friend’s house, then returned to the grieving son.
Residing illegally, the sex worker has just been sentenced to 160 days in prison for failure to provide assistance, theft and practicing prostitution without authorization. She spent three months in preventive detention. As for the receiver, he received a suspended sentence of 60 days.
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