If Eike Batista was a superstitious man, he would probably track the start of his spectacular fall from grace to one night in March last year, when his eldest son appeared on the news in a blood-spattered white T-shirt. Twenty-year-old Thor had been driving his father’s Mercedes – the one the Brazilian oil and mining baron normally displayed in the living room of his Rio de Janeiro mansion – when he ran over and killed Wanderson Pereira dos Santos, a 30-year-old labourer, on the city’s impoverished fringe.
如果埃克•巴蒂斯塔(Eike Batista)是一个迷信的人,他可能会认为自己戏剧性的衰落始于去年3月的一个夜晚。那天晚上,他的长子穿着一件血迹斑斑的白色T恤,成了新闻的主角。他的长子名叫托尔(Thor),今年20岁,一直开着父亲的奔驰车——这辆车通常被这位巴西石油采矿业大亨展示在里约热内卢家中的客厅里。当晚,在里约热内卢郊区的贫民区,托尔驱车撞上了30岁的工人万德森•佩雷拉•多斯桑托斯(Wanderson Pereira dos Santos),致其死亡。