BRASILIA — Brazil’s federal police recommended misconduct charges be filed on Friday, May 19, against two ex-officials of the indigenous agency Funai in the case of a journalist and a native expert murdered in June 2022 in the Amazon rainforest. The police said the two former officials failed to act on information ahead of the murders of British reporter Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. That, the police asserted, “culminated in the double homicide.”Reuters was not immediately able to locate the two former Funai officials, or their lawyers, to request comment. Phillips, a freelance journalist who wrote for outlets including the British newspaper The Guardian and the Washington Post, was on a reporting trip with Pereira in the Amazon rainforest’s Javari Valley. ADVERTISEMENTREAD: Brazil police arrest third suspect in murder of British journalist and indigenous expertThe two men disappeared on June 5, and authorities found their bodies several days later.
