Watch As Female Tourist Is Stabbed In The Back Several Times During Robbery In Rio

RIO — A woman from São Paulo who has lived in the city of Montpellier, in the south of France, for eight years, was stabbed by a man in the early hours of Tuesday, the 8th, in Copacabana, in the South Zone of Rio.

Businesswoman Janaína da Silva Campos, 48, was sitting at the door of a hotel on Rua Francisco de Sá around 1 am when she was approached by a criminal who attacked her in the back, arms, and neck.

Images from a security camera recorded the action and show the victim being rescued by a doorman and taken to the Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital, in Leblon, where she was treated.

According to the tourist, she had returned from a dinner with friends to the hotel where they were staying. As smoking is not allowed on the premises, she walked out onto the sidewalk for a few minutes. At that moment, she heard the bandit “mumbling” and turned to him, being surprised by the stab wounds.

Janaína said she left the country precisely for fear of violence. At the time, she was working as a masseuse at a hotel on Praia de Cumbuco, in Fortaleza, Ceará, when the establishment was robbed.

— I traveled to São Paulo to visit my parents, but some German friends were on vacation and insisted that I come for a few days. It's a beautiful city, I've been to Pão de Açúcar, Copacabana Beach, Praia da Barra. But, unlike other places where I've been robbed, like Barcelona and Zurich, for example, here people kill themselves for nothing.

What I suffered was not theft, it was gratuitous aggression. After what I've been through and what I'm going through, I can guarantee that I'll never go back to Rio,” he said, in an interview with GLOBO.