Officials give confirmation after forensic tests, as police suggest killings were not carried out upon orders from organised crime
“The investigations indicate that the killers acted alone, without any author or criminal organisation behind them,” Brazil’s federal police in the Amazon region said in a statement.
The “cruelty used in the practice of the crime shows that Pereira and Phillips got in the way of a powerful criminal organisation that sought at all costs to cover its tracks during the investigation,” Univaja said in a statement. “We call for accountability and justice – we must collectively strengthen efforts to protect environmental defenders and journalists,” Price wrote on Twitter.Police detained two brothers, Amarildo and Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, in connection with the crime and one of the suspects led police to where Phillips and Pereira’s bodies were buried on Wednesday. The two bodies were taken to the capital, Brasília, on Thursday for autopsies and forensic exams.
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