The boat on which the British journalist Dom Phillips and the natives advocate Bruno Pereira when they were killed in the Amazon jungle has been restored by the police.
Operatives with in fire service and fleet”found the boat on which the victims used around 20:20 on June 19, federal police in state of Amazonas said in statement. “The boat will be subjected to the necessary forensic examination in order to contribute to complete clarification of all the facts.”
white metal craft was found at a depth of at a distance of 20-30 meters from bank of Ithaquai River, said police chief Alex Perez Timoteo. He was weighed down on six bags of earth. Police also found 40 hp yamaha engine
Philips and Pereira traveled in boat on June 5, when they were reported missing after failing to show up at their destination. in Atalaya do Norte, small city ​​near the border with Brazil with Peru.
Phillips worked on book on sustainability development titled “How to Save the Amazon” and Pereira, who had close contacts with local indigenous groups, helped him with interview.
Three men were arrested in connection with in crime, with one confess to murder. Last week he led the police in remote place in the jungle where Phillips and Pereira were buried after being shot. Five more people are wanted authorities for participation in concealment of body.
Although the officials did not say anything. reason for brutal murders, it is believed that Pereira was main goal.
Defender of Local peoples and former official with federal governmentindigenous foundationhe knew of illegal fishing that was common in in area and it was alleged that he had been threatened before at least one of in men detained by the police.
area in far west of Brazil home in large quantities of turtles and pyrarucu, one of largest freshwater fish in in world. Animals are sold at high prices in the markets in Atalaia do Norte and also across the border in neighboring Colombia.
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murder angered both in Brazil and the UK, where Phillips previously worked as an editor. of Mixmag magazine in 1990s. It shone unflattering light on far right government of Jair Bolsonaro, a man who, according to many, has some responsibility for in crime.
Bolsonaro weakened government agencies designed to protect indigenous people and environment and encouraged lumberjacks, miners and hunters to invade parts of Amazon, which are reserved exclusively by law for Indigenous groups.
Number of recorded intrusions and attacks on Indigenous land has grown from 111 in 2018 year to Bolsonaro took power up to 263 in 2020, according to a study by the Office for Indigenous Rights. group CIMI.
