"Another day, another reported incident of American government personnel having run-ins with prostitutes abroad. A lawyer for a Brazilian “sex professional and dancer” says his client plans to sue the U.S. Embassy, three Marines, an American staff member, and one of the Embassy’s Brazilian drivers for injuries allegedly sustained in an incident in Brasilia late last year, the Associated Press reports.
What happened depends on who you ask. Cezar Britto, the lawyer, told the AP that his client, Romilda Aparecida Ferreira, met the four Americans at a nightclub called Apples on December 29, 2011. She and three other women left with the men in three vehicles, two of which belonged to the embassy. Britto claims that one of the Marines pushed Ferreira out of one of the vehicles after an argument with the driver, and that his client broke her collarbone, two ribs, and punctured a lung when the vehicle then ran her over. Antonio Rodrigo Machado, another of Ferreira’s lawyers, told The Los Angeles Times that the fight started after the driver didn’t want to help the women speak English with the Americans.
“We’ll be suing the U.S. Embassy because it authorized the use of a vehicle that was used for attempted murder,” Machado said.
The State Department offered its version of the story at a press briefing on Thursday.
“[M]y understanding is that she was initially in the car; she was asked to leave the car; she got out of the car; the doors were closed. As the Pentagon guy said, the vehicle was at rest. And then, as they started to drive away, she chased after the car, tried to get back in, and that’s when she was hurt,” Victoria Nuland told reporters. Asked if Ferreira was run over, Nuland responded that “I do not have that she was run over by the car.”"
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