The crisis committee, coordinated by the Federal Police of Amazonas, which is involved in the search for indigenist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, reported on Thursday night (16) that the vessel being used by the pair has not yet been found. .
In a press release, the committee states that the vessel was not located “despite exhaustive searches carried out on this date in the perimeter indicated by Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, alias ‘Pelado’”.
According to the note, from the samples collected on the suspect’s boat, a complete genetic profile of a male individual was obtained. “Confronting it with the reference genetic profiles of the disappeared, the National Institute of Criminalistics excluded the possibility that this trace came from Bishop Phillips. The possibility that it originated from Bruno remained inconclusive, requiring complementary exams”, says the document.
The Federal Police plane that transported the human remains found during the searches landed at around 6:30 pm at Brasília Airport. The material was taken to the National Institute of Criminalistics, where it has already begun to be examined to confirm the identity. The PF forecast is that the expertise will be completed next week. https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2022-06/aviao-da-pf-chega-brasilia-com-restos-mortais-de-desaparecidos
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Indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira and English journalist Dom Phillips, correspondent for The Guardian in Brazil, had been missing since June 5, in the Vale do Javari region, in western Amazonas.
According to the coordination of the Union of Indigenous Organizations of the Javari Valley (Univaja), Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips arrived on Friday (3) at Lago do Jaburu, near the Ituí river, so that the journalist could visit the place and interviews with indigenous people.
According to Unijava, on Sunday (5), the two should return to the city of Atalaia do Norte, after stopping in the São Rafael community, so that the indigenist could have a meeting with a person from the community nicknamed Churrasco. On the same day, a Unijava search team left Atalaia do Norte in search of Bruno and Dom, but did not find them and they were reported missing.
