Brazil - July 22, 2018 - CCTV domestic violence, Tatiane Spitzner killed, husband being investigated

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A video showing a Brazilian man beating his wife and later dragging her dead body back to their apartment has ignited a fierce debate about domestic violence in the South American country.

Viral Video Of Man Beating Wife Sparks Outrage In Brazil | HuffPost

The scenes, captured by security cameras, are gruesome: A man pummels and kicks his wife in the garage of their building. She tries to flee, but he forces her into the elevator. They go up to their fifth-floor apartment.

Less than 20 minutes later, he takes the elevator back down — to fetch her bloody, lifeless body, which had plummeted to the sidewalk below.

The footage from the night of July 22, first broadcast Sunday on the popular television program Fantástico, has been playing repeatedly on national television. The graphic, blow-by-blow view into what domestic violence really looks like is challenging the widespread notion that you shouldn’t “stick a spoon” in marital disputes.

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According to a 2012 survey, Brazil has the seventh highest rate of femicide (the killing of a woman or girl, in particular by a man and on account of her gender) in the world, with 4.4 murders per 100,000 women. A 2017 survey found that a third of women in Brazil have been the victims of violence, and that over half of the attackers were either their current or former partners.

Horrific Video of Man Beating His Wife Goes Viral in Brazil