He was reported missing on 28 December 2016 while serving as ambassador to Brazil and his body was found near Rio de Janeiro the next day.

In 2016 he was chosen to serve as Ambassador to Brazil and he presented his credentials to Brazilian Acting President Michel Temer on 25 May 2016.

Hours later, a body was found in a burnt-out car underneath an overpass of the Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro highway near Nova Iguaçu.

One of the apprehended figures, military police officer Sérgio Gomes Moreira,[6] is suspected of having been having an affair with Françoise; he confessed to the murder.

[1] Police believe Amiridis was murdered in an apartment owned by the ambassador in Nova Iguaçu, where the couple and their daughter were staying for the Christmas holiday.