SÃO PAULO — A Brazilian prostitute plans to sue the U.S. Embassy, three Marines, an American staff member and one of the embassy’s Brazilian drivers for injuries caused when she allegedly was pushed out of a van in Brasilia, her attorney said Thursday.
Attorney Cezar Britto
described Romilda Aparecida Ferreira as a “sex professional and dancer” who met the four Americans at the Apples nightclub on Dec. 29, 2011. She and three other women left with the men in three vehicles, including two belonging to the embassy.
Britto said that after an argument with the driver, one of the Marines pushed Ferreira out of the vehicle. She broke her collarbone and two ribs and punctured a lung when the car ran over her in the nightclub’s parking lot, the attorney said.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday that the woman was not pushed out of the vehicle but rather “attempted to open a car door and get into a closed and moving vehicle. She was not able to do so. She fell and she injured herself.”
