June 13, 2022

13:06

Omar Gusmão – Cenarium Magazine

The British newspaper The Guardian, one of the most important media outlets in the world, informed on its website, on Monday morning, 13, that a Brazilian embassy attaché in London informed the family of the journalist Dom Phillips that two bodies had been found tied to trees during the search for the British journalist and the Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira, in Javari Valley.

The site also states that the “brazilian police seem to deny” the information given by the brazilian embassy aide. “An aide of the Brazilian ambassador to the UK told family members that bodies were discovered tied to a tree in the rainforest, but police appear to deny the aide’s remarks”, says the Guardian article.

In fact, the news that two bodies had been found was denied by both the Federal Police, who are coordinating the task force set up to carry out the search for the missing pair, and the Union of Indigenous Peoples of Vale do Javari (Univaja).

“Bodies that could be those of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira were found in the Amazon a week after the pair disappeared, according to Brazilian diplomats”, says the newspaper’s publication.

According to The Guardian, the information was passed on to the family via a phone call and it was Phillips’ brother-in-law who communicated it to the press: “He said he wanted us to know that … they had found two bodies”, said Paul Sherwood, Phillips’ brother-in-law. “He didn’t describe the location and just said it was in the rainforest and said they were tied to a tree and had not yet been identified”, the English newspaper text follows.

The publication also includes the denial of the Federal Police and Univaja, then: “The information being shared that the bodies of Mr. Bruno Pereira and Mr. Dom Phillips have been found is without merit”, the federal police statement said. “As previously stated, biological materials and personal belongings of the missing men have been found and are being examined. As soon as any discovery is made the family, and the media will be immediately informed”, the vehicle published, reproducing the PF statement.

“Beto Marubo, a prominent indigenous leader in the Javari Valley, told the Guardian that indigenous search groups had not confirmed the discovery of two bodies at the search site”, the paper’s report further said.