The exhumation of Emilio Santiago’s body, scheduled for this Thursday 20th, did not take place and has to be postponed. The exhumation was scheduled for 10:30 am and did not take place due to a lack of communication between the plainclothes police and the lab.
“We waited for the exhumation, there was a very long delay, which is unusual, and we contacted the court along with the laboratory and there was a truncated communication. IML who must accompany them,” informs attorney Bruno Maher, defending Alexsander Nunes, the singer’s alleged son.
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Bruno will file a request for a new date for the exhumation this Thursday afternoon and will be dependent on a new date by a judge. “Now everything is paid, expertise paid, everything in order, so there is no need to hesitate. We hope that it will be scheduled for yesterday,” he informs.
Waiting for almost ten years
Aleksander has been waiting since 2013 for the judiciary to authorize him to carry out a DNA test. In 2019, the producer even tried to raise money through virtual crowdfunding to pay for the exam costs.
The aim was to raise the sum of R$ 15,000 to finance the exhumation of Emilio’s body and to collect genetic material for a DNA test. Only then can Aleksandre prove the degree of kinship, since he was raised by his mother and stepfather, unaware that he was the artist’s son.
When he discovered at the age of 26 that he could be Emilio Santiago’s son, Aleksander searched for his biological father, but he was not legally recognized as the son, nor were they subjected to DNA testing during the singer’s lifetime.
Singer Emílio Santiago died in March 2013 Photo: Disclosure
At the time, Emilio’s alleged son vented about the difficulties he was facing: “I’m lost. I have already filed a lawsuit, but the process is not moving. They had to have the right to carry out this procedure. . My kids suffer from all this story at school. The classmates scoff and ask if they aren’t Emilio Santiago’s grandsons”.
Eighteen months after Emílio’s death, Aleksander performed the first DNA test on the singer’s halfsister. The report showed the result in 63% certainty of the degree of relatedness between them. But only an exhumation of Emilio’s remains could prove it at a higher percentage.
Aleksander Nunes Photo: Reproduction/Instagram
Some time later, the producer performed another test using genetic material from Santiago that would have been preserved before his death, but the result showed only a 12% probability that the singer was his father.
Now Aleksander finally got permission from the court to carry out the exhumation of Emilio’s body and thus prove his relationship to the musician or not.