The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) reported today (6) that it is monitoring the measures being taken to locate the indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira and the English journalist Dom Phillips, correspondent for The Guardian in Brazil.
According to the coordination of the Union of Indigenous Organizations of Vale do Javari (Univaja), a region located in western Amazonas, they have been missing for more than 24 hours.
“The information passed on to the MPF is that the agents linked to these forces are sweeping the stretch between the São Rafael community and the municipality of Atalaia do Norte (AM), where the disappearance would have occurred,” the PGR reported.
This afternoon, the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, and the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, met in Brasília to deal with measures on the case.
In addition to the PGR, the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) in Amazonas opened an administrative procedure to follow up on the issue and called the Navy, the Federal Police (PF) and other authorities.
Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips arrived on Friday at Lago do Jaburu, near the Ituí River, so that the journalist could visit the place and conduct interviews with indigenous people. According to Unijava, yesterday the two should return to the city of Atalaia do Norte around 9 am, after stopping in the São Rafael community, so that the indigenist could have a meeting with a person from the community nicknamed Churrasco. In the early afternoon, a first search team from Unijava left Atalaia do Norte in search of the missing, but did not find them.
The PF reported that it is also monitoring and working on the case.. “The investigations are being undertaken and will be disclosed in due course”, says a note from the institution.
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