A participant in Bravo’s “Below Deck” franchise has been arrested in Turkey after a fight in Bodrum left a 17-year-old dead, according to local reports.
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Joao Franco, 36, and his brother Carlos have been arrested in Turkey following an altercation in the resort city of Bodrum that left a 17-year-old dead, local media reported.
Local reports cited Demiroren News Agency as saying the Franco brothers, described as Portuguese nationals and yacht captains, became involved in a dispute with shopkeepers in Bodrum last Saturday evening.
Demiroren reported that the brothers were intoxicated and that an argument broke out after they began swearing.
During the subsequent fight, teenager Muhammet Koyabakan fell and hit his head on the ground, the agency said. He was taken to a hospital but died on Monday.
Demiroren said the brothers were detained and later formally arrested. The reports said they told police they were attacked and acted in self-defense, and that they denied hitting Koyabakan.
The yacht captains were previously shown on Bravo’s “Below Deck Down Under” and “Below Deck Mediterranean,” and the reports also tied them to “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”
Bodrum is described as a port city on the Aegean Sea that is popular with wealthy yacht owners. Reports in the same account named Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos among billionaires who have visited there in recent years.
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