Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, according to a statement.
FILE - Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, is led out a courthouse by military and civil police officers in Atalia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 15, 2022, after his arrest and that of his brother Amarildo, as a main suspect in the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
All are local riverine dwellers, and their motive was that Pereira asked Phillips to photograph them when they passed by in a boat, the statement said. The area is aPhillips and Pereira had met with Indigenous people near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia, and were traveling along the Itaquai River back to the city of Atalaia do Norte when they were attacked.
On the day they were murdered, Pereira was transporting such evidence to authorities in Atalaia do Norte, and he was shot three times. Phillips, who waswas killed because “only because of being with Bruno, in order to ensure impunity for the prior crime,” the prosecutors’ statement said.
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