Danilo Neves Pereira, 35 years old, had been missing since last Tuesday (14), when he had informed some friends that he was going on a date
Brazilian university professor Danilo Neves Pereira, aged 35, was found dead in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, this Monday (20), according to the Argentine newspaper La Nación. Pereira was missing since last Tuesday (14).
That day, the Brazilian professor made contact with friends and told them he would find a persona Chilean he had met through a dating appbut stopped responding to messages. The last information he shared was the location with the man’s addressa place located in the center of the Argentine capital.
According to La Nación, on Wednesday (15), Pereira was admitted as unidentified at the Ramos Mejía hospital, in Buenos Aires, “due to psychotropic decompensation caused by cocaine use”. He would have passed away on the 15th.
A friend of Danilo interviewed by La Nación stated that he managed to find and talk to the “young Chilean” with whom the missing professor was before disappearing, and that he told him that the Brazilian left the place after “a small argument, more or less at the same time he sent the last message”.
Danilo had lived in Buenos Aires for five months. On Wednesday, friends posted on social media that Danilo had been missing for 24 hours and local authorities had already been contacted. As of Sunday night (19), there was still no information about the teacher’s whereabouts.
Danilo gave English classes at the Language Center of the Federal University of Goiás for 12 years and, until shortly before moving to Buenos Aires, he lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied a doctorate in applied linguistics. He would defend his thesis in the coming weeks.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
