However, Sampaio has revealed that the Federal Police has confirmed that the bodies are those of her husband and partner of this, while the British embassy would have already contacted Phillips’ brothers to communicate the news to them, reported the G1 portal of the newspaper O Globo.
Both had been seen for the last time on June 5 in the community of San Rafael -within the indigenous lands of the Javari Valley-, from where they left for Northern Watchtoweralthough finally they did not reach their destination.
On Sunday, search teams found a backpack and other belongings believed to belong to the disappeared near the home of Amarildo Costa de Oliveiraone of the suspects in the disappearance, who has been in preventive detention for a few days.
The area where they both disappeared is known to be one of the most inaccessible in the Amazon, home not only to the largest concentration of uncontacted indigenous peoples, but also the scene of one of the major routes through which cocaine circulates that arrives from Peru to be distributed to Europe.
The Federal Police admitted on Wednesday that it does not rule out “any line of investigation”, including that of the homicide, in a region considered “dangerous”.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticized the Brazilian government for having reacted too late to search for the disappeared.
Yesterday there were protests in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Belém, capital of the Amazonian state of Pará, for the two disappeared in the Amazon jungle.
President Jair Bolsonaro He had said that the professionals’ trip had been an “adventure” and slipped that they could have been “executed” because it is a conflictive region.
Source: Ambito
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