Police investigating the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips, author of several articles about Indigenous people, and Brazilian expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon, brought one of the two arrested suspects into the search site on Wednesday, according to some Brazilian media.
Police investigating the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips, author of several articles about Indigenous people, and Brazilian expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon, brought one of the two arrested suspects into the search site on Wednesday, according to some Brazilian media.
Footage from TV Globo, the country’s largest channel, shows a man covering his face through a hood exiting the police station and entering a police boat, in Atalaia do Norte (northwest), near the border of Brazil along with Peru and Colombia.
The boat flew into the river where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were last seen on January 5, when they were supposed to return to Atalaia do Norte.
The Brazilian Federal Police (PF) declined to comment on these photos.
A first suspect, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, a fisherman with a nickname Peladowas arrested on June 7.
On Tuesday, a second suspect was arrested. Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, sabi Dos Santosay suspected in connection with the caseannounced by PF in a statement.
Witnesses said they saw Pelado passed very fast aboard a boat in the same direction as Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s boat, before they disappeared.
Contributor to The Guardian newspaper, Dom Phillips, 57, is preparing a book on environmental protection on Amazon.
Bruno Pereira, 41, an expert at Brazil’s government agency for indigenous affairs, served as his guide in the allegedly dangerous region of the Javari Valley, a strategic axis for drug traffickers and a favorite spot for miners. of gold, fisherman or illegal logger. .
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