Crime podcast “Under Suspicion” (2/3)
The “AIDS healer” from Bern: Why didn’t anyone warn about this man?
Claudio G. was a music teacher, guru and “healer”. He used this image to specifically infect his victim with HIV. The public didn't know about it for years.
It's the year 2004, and something mysterious is happening in Bern: a man comes to the Inselspital in bad condition; it turns out that he has been infected with HIV. But where?
The man has a suspicion: He remembers a strange “acupuncture treatment” in Claudio G.'s music school. The man is convinced that this is the only place where he could have become infected and reports Claudio G.. But the medical profession and even his family members do not believe him and cannot explain such an infection during treatment.
The music teacher Claudio G. is released after a short period of custody. But in the following months, cases of people in the Bern area coming to hospital with HIV infections – and in some cases rare hepatitis diseases – increased. The doctors see a pattern because those affected have only one thing in common: they were treated by music teacher and self-proclaimed healer Claudio G..
Years of investigation, many victims
Those affected include Claudio G.'s family members, ex-girlfriends, an underage teenager and a man who described Claudio G. as his best friends. But there are also random victims from his music school. The authorities investigate – and although the suspicion quickly becomes confirmed, Claudio G. is still at large years later.
The public knows nothing about the infections and the investigations for a long time. Until June 2010 in “SonntagsBlick” with the title: “The AIDS splash from Bern”. Now the public is wondering: Why is the investigation taking so long? Should the music students have been warned earlier?
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