The gloomy quest that lasted 10 days in Brazil remote Amazon region for A British journalist and Aboriginal expert is finally over after a local fisherman confesses to it killing the missing men And the took The authorities to what they said they remains.
Authorities said Wednesday they expect to do more arrests in the case of Freelance correspondents Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira of Brazil, who disappear on June 5. None of them were made as such of Thursday morning, but the police said searches for The boat the two of them used was about to restart.
They did not provide any immediate explanation of defend for The killingbut earlier it was suggested that Pereira work To stop illegal fishing in An Aboriginal reserve angered local fishermen.
in news conspiracy in Amazon city of Manaus, a federal police investigator said that prime suspect in The case admitted Tuesday night and detailed what happened to Phillips and Pereira. Detective Eduardo Alexandre Fontes said Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, 41, nicknamed Bellado, told officers that he used a firearm in the attack. kill The men.
“We will not have way of “Getting to that spot quickly without recognition,” Torres said. of The place Where the police recovered the human remains Wednesday after de Oliveira drove him there.
Torres said remains It was expected that their identities would be established within days, and if it was confirmed that they were missing men”to the families of The two.”
“we found The investigator said the bodies were 3 kilometers (about two miles) into the woods, adding that the officers had traveled one 1 hour 40 minutes by boat and 25 more In the woods to reach the burial place.
suspect family He previously said that he denied any wrongdoing and claimed that the police tortured him to try to obtain a confession.
Another officer, Guilherme Torres of Amazonas State Police, said the missing men was not a boat found Yet, I knew the police area where he was allegedly hidden.
They put the bags of dirt on “The boat is sinking,” he said. the engine of The boat was removed, according to investigators.
military leaders also It was joined Trying to find Phillips and Pereira a few days after they disappeared.
President Jair Bolsonaro, a frequent critic of Journalists and indigenous experts, he has drawn criticism that government did not get involved fast Enough. before the bodies were discovered on Wednesday, slammed Phillips in Interview, saying that the locals in The area Where he disappeared he did not like he and that should It has been more to caution in The region.
Efforts to find the two were initiated by the indigenous people peoples in The region. UNIVAJA, association of the original people peoples of Wadi Javari mourning the loss of “two partners” in Wednesday statement, adding that they only have help And the protection from the local police.
peers of Pereira called a vigil outside headquarters of Brazilian governmentAborigines affairs Agency in Brasilia from which he was on He left.
Pereira, 41, and Phillips, 57 last I have seen on boat them in river near the entrance of Indigenous territory of the Javari Valley, bordering Peru and Colombia. who – which area Witnessed violent conflicts between hunters and fishermen and government Client.
On Wednesday morning, reporters watched Federal Police officers take a hooded suspect whom they had not initially identified out on River direction search parties for Phillips and Pereira.
On Tuesday, police said they had arrested A second suspect in Connection with The disappearance identified him as Ausini da Costa de Oliveira, 41, a fisherman and a brother of The primary suspect.
the original people people who they were with Pereira and Phillips said Pelado pointed a gun at them on The day before the husband’s disappearance.
official search teams Focus their efforts around a spot in Itakaway River where there is a tarp of missing menwas a boat found Saturday by Aboriginal volunteers Matisse group.
that they found backpack bag, laptop And other personal belongings submerged under water Sunday.
Police previously reported finding traces of the blood in Pilado boat.
The authorities said main Line of The investigation indicated the presence of international network that pay poor fishermen to fish illegally in Javare Valley Reserve, a Brazilian reserve second- The largest indigenous lands.
Pereira who Previously drove the domestic bureau of Federal Indigenous Agency, has participated in Several operations against Illegal fishing. Operations usually lead to grab of fishing gear and fines for offenders. Only the indigenous people can legally fish in their lands.
But the police did not rule out other lines of Investigation, such as drug smuggling.
Phillips’ wife, Alessandra Sampaio, said this discovery of Corpses ‘put an end to the torment of I don’t know where Dom and Bruno are.”
“Now we can bring them. home Farewell with Sampaio said in a permit. “Today we are also begin our quest for justice. “
Pereira’s wife, Beatrice Matos, expressed her sadness on Thursday.
“Now that Bruno’s souls have walked in The forest and its spread on ‘Our strength is much greater,’ she said. on Twitter.
