Bolsonaro assures that "the evidence leads one to believe that they did some harm" to the disappeared journalist and indigenista

MADRID, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has assured this Monday that the "evidence" is that the indigenist Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips disappeared eight days ago in the Vale do Javari region, have been victims of some "evil", and that it will be "very difficult to find them alive".

"The evidence, the evidence, suggests that they did something wrong with them. Because human viscera have already been found floating in the river, they are already here in Brasilia to do a DNA test," said the president, as reported by the Brazilian newspaper 'O Globo'.

Thus, he stressed that "it will be very difficult to find them alive. Pray to God that this happens, that they are found alive, but the evidence at this time is quite the opposite."

Alessandra Sampaio, the wife of the British journalist Dom Phillips, whose trail was lost along with that of the indigenist Bruno Pereira a little over a week ago while they were traveling through a region of difficult access in the Amazon, reported this Monday that the bodies without lives of both have been located.

For the moment, neither the Brazilian authorities nor the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), which reported the disappearance of both, have confirmed that the bodies found are those of Phillips and Pereira, while, for its part, the Federal Police has denied.

Firefighters from the Amazon region found this Sunday a backpack with a notebook. The Federal Police reported that the belongings found Javari belonged to the two disappeared, according to local media.

Both had been seen for the last time on June 5 in the community of Sao Rafael --within the indigenous lands of the Javari Valley--, from where they left for Atalaia del Norte, although in the end they did not reach their destination.

The area in which both disappeared is known for being one of the most inaccessible in the region, home not only to the largest concentration of uncontacted indigenous peoples, but also the scene of one of the largest routes through which the cocaine that arrives circulates. from Peru to be distributed to Europe.