Judge Jacinta Silva dos Santos, head of the District of Atalaia do Norte, a municipality in the interior of Amazonas, determined that the case concerning the murders of indigenist Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Philips, which took place on June 5 of this year. The case is under judicial secrecy.
Pereira and Phillips were shot dead and their bodies burned and buried during an expedition in a region that is the scene of recurring conflicts in the Amazon: drug trafficking, wood theft and the advance of mining.
The information was confirmed by the Court of Justice of Amazonas (TJ-AM). In the decision, the magistrate noted that the report of the investigations carried out by the Civil and Federal Police, and which appears in the procedural records, concludes that the motivation of the crime would be directly related to indigenous rights, whose analysis of the legal matter is the responsibility of the Federal Court. .
In addition, the Public Prosecutor’s Office also asked the Federal Court to decline jurisdiction. “This information was not previously included in the records, which therefore allowed the State Court to act in this process”, explained the judge.
The TJ-AM also reported that, in the late afternoon of last Wednesday (6), there was a request from the police authorities who are in charge of the investigations for the Justice to convert the temporary detention of three investigated into preventive detention.
Source: CNN Brasil
