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 president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonarosaid Monday that “human viscera were found floating in the river” during the search for both.
“The searches continue. But the indications lead to believe that they did something evil with thembecause human viscera have already been found floating in the river, which are in Brasilia to identify their DNA,” Bolsonaro said during an interview with local radio.
“Because of the time that has passed, eight days now, it will be very difficult to find them alive. I pray to God that this happens, but the signs point in the opposite direction,” he added.
The police, for their part, did not confirm that any body had been found, generating a climate of confusion.
The Federal Police (PF) said that “the information that is being disclosed about the discovery of the bodies of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips is not appropriate.”
He reiterated that “biological materials” and personal objects of the disappeared, found in the previous days, were being analyzed.
The Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javarí Valley (UNIVAJA), which is involved in the search, also denied that two bodies were found.
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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