networks The two women who have been “living” for three months in a Mc Donalds in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, were outraged by the repercussions of the case. In an interview with TV Globo, one of them asked people not to meddle in their lives.
“I’m finding it all ridiculous, I can’t understand how it snowballed,” said Suzy, who is living next door to her daughter (Bruna) at the restaurant located in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most affluent neighborhoods.
According to the women, aged 64 and 31, they are looking for an apartment while living in McDonald’s and on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
“If it had been a dark-skinned person, with little clothing, with little suitcase, it wouldn’t have aroused curiosity,” said the youngest.
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five suitcases in good condition, the women from Rio Grande do Sul stay inside the establishment during opening hours, from 10 am to 5 am. When the place closes, at dawn, they go to the sidewalk to sleep.
Both, so far, have refused any kind of help from residents, businessmen and the public authorities in the region.
To CBN, the women said that they are looking for a property with rent of up to R$ 1,200 in the region to get off the streets. They also said that they are waiting for Suzy’s husband to arrive from Paris, France, to live in a more dignified way.
One man, however, revealed that the two women are known to default on lodging. “I know them from the history (of the place) where I worked, a hotel in Copacabana. They stayed there and didn’t pay for their accommodation in 2022. They don’t accept help, they’re very harsh, they don’t open up. They are walking on the street, on pilgrimage. They go back and forth, and there is no fixed location,” the seller told CBN.
According to the Civil Police, mother and daughter have three records of occurrence for defaults in hotels in Copacabana – the complaints happened in 2018, 2019 and 2021.