You could say his fingerprints — all 12 of them — were all over the crime.
An accused drug-trafficker was nabbed by police in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina after they confirmed his identity through the betrayal of a rare birth defect: six fingers on each hand.
“We had indications that it was him, but because he presented his brother’s papers as identification we had no proof,” police commissioner Enio de Oliveira Matos told Globo’s news website G1.
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“Given this peculiarity, we requested information from the Institute of Identification in the state of Parana, where he was born, and with this feature, it was possible to confirm his identity.”
G1 published photographs of the hands of the detained man, who had been wanted for drug trafficking in the state of Mato Grosso.
(AFP)
你可以說他的指紋─一共有十二根指頭─遍及犯罪現場。
一名被指控的巴西毒販,由於罕見的天生缺陷─每隻手有六根指頭─讓巴西南部聖塔卡達里那省警察從此一明顯特徵確認了他的身分,因而將他當場逮捕。可說是毒販的天生缺陷出賣了他。
警察局長艾尼歐‧迪奧利維拉馬托斯告訴巴西環球電視台的新聞網站G1說,「我們判斷那就是他,但因他交出其兄弟的身分證明文件,所以我們當時沒有足夠的證據。」
他說,「根據此一特點,我們從他出生地巴西巴拉那州的身份鑒定所調閱資料,且根據這個特徵確認他的身分。」
G1公佈這位被扣押男子雙手的照片,而這位正是馬托格羅索州毒品非法交易的通緝犯。
(法新社/翻譯:林亞蒂)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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