A 40-year-old Brazilian woman who fled her home country where she is suspected of having poisoned five of her children to death has been run to ground in Coimbra, where she has been living ‘quietly’ since May.
Gisele Oliveira was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, and arrested yesterday by judicial police inspectors with the Unit of Criminal Information.
Oliveira will most likely be remanded in custody, pending extradition back to Brazil.
According to reports, she faces a total of 154 years in jail for the crimes she has allegedly committed.
As to these crimes, they all appear to have taken place without witnesses, and at night.
Indeed, for a period of years, no-one in Minas Gerais, where Oliveira lived with her children, appears to have suspected anything. The children ‘just died’ over the years: two in 2010, two in 2019 and one in 2023.
“It was only in 2025 when the family became aware of the connection between the deaths, that the net began to tighten around Gisele Oliveira”, writes Correio da Manhã.
That ‘connection’ appears to be the “large doses of sedatives” that the woman is understood to have given her children.
According to CM, it was Oliveira’s own mother who reported her suspicions to local police – and it was shortly afterwards, before any arrest warrant could be drawn up, that Gisele Oliveira skipped the country to come to Portugal.
She has been living with a fellow countryman who ‘works in civil construction’, and was financing the life of his companion who exercised ‘no known profession’, says the paper.
The PJ’s Unit of Criminal Information is responsible for seeking and detaining people who are the subject of international arrest warrants.
Source: Correio da Manhã
