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"I can take him as a slave": Argentine tourist arrested in Brazil over messages about 7-year-old

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"I can take him as a slave": Argentine tourist arrested in Brazil over messages about 7-year-old
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A 63-year-old Argentine tourist, identified as Eduardo Ignacio, was arrested on Sunday in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on racial discrimination charges after photographing and filming a 7-year-old Black boy aboard a tourist train, and sharing the images in a messaging group with racist comments that included the phrase: "I can take him as a slave." The case, recorded on the steam train that connects the municipality of São João del-Rei with the historic city of the same name, raises to th

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