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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Thu Nov 28, 2019, 07:37 PM Nov 2019

Para Police Arrest Volunteer Firemen who Are Suspected of Causing Fires near Amazon

Pará Police Arrest Volunteer Firemen who Are Suspected of Causing Fires near Amazon
Defense denies charges; operation also carried out against NGO Saúde e Alegria

Nov.27.2019 1:04PM

João Pedro Pitombo
Gustavo Uribe
SALVADOR and BRASÍLIA
The Pará Civil Police suspects that four voluntary firemen helped cause a September fire in the area of Santarém, Pará (1,231 km from Belém) and served them with police warrants on Tuesday.

The police operation is focused on the Fogo do Sairé operation, which happened at the origin of the fires that hit the Alteração do Chãoregion in September this year.

The fire consumed an area equivalent to 1,600 soccer fields and took four days to be stopped by brigade and fire brigade. - CAIO GUATELLI

According to the Civil Police, a two-month investigation found evidence that NGOs, including the Ground Alteration Fire Brigade, caused the fire.

One of the search warrants was fulfilled at the headquarters of Projeto Saúde e Alegria, one of the most recognized NGOs in the region, which has received several awards for its work in the Amazon. Police searched computers and documents.

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https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/11/para-police-arrest-volunteer-firemen-who-are-suspected-of-causing-fires-near-amazon.shtml

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Brazil's president claims DiCaprio paid for Amazon fires Eugene Nov 2019 #1

Eugene

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1. Brazil's president claims DiCaprio paid for Amazon fires

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Fri Nov 29, 2019, 04:06 PM

Nov 2019

Source: The Guardian

Brazil’s president claims DiCaprio paid for Amazon fires

Jair Bolsonaro falsely accuses actor of funding deliberate destruction of rainforest

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
Fri 29 Nov 2019 19.59 GMT
Last modified on Fri 29 Nov 2019 20.01 GMT

Brazil’s president has falsely accused the actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling the deliberate incineration of the Amazon rainforest.

Jair Bolsonaro – a populist nationalist who has vowed to drive environmental NGOs from Brazil – made the claim on Friday, reportedly telling supporters: “This Leonardo DiCaprio’s a cool guy, isn’t he? Giving money for the Amazon to be torched.”

The spurious accusation – for which Brazil’s president offered no proof – came 24 hours after Bolsonaro made a similarly unsubstantiated claim in a Facebook live broadcast.

“Leonardo DiCaprio, dammit, you’re collaborating with the burning of the Amazon,” Bolsonaro declared, accusing the actor of being part of an international “campaign against Brazil”.

Bolsonaro’s unsubstantiated allegations relate to the controversial arrest on Tuesday of four volunteer firefighters whom local police accused – also apparently without evidence – of setting fire to the forest in order to boost fundraising efforts for an international NGO.

The firefighters were released on Thursday amid widespread public outrage at their treatment and questions over the police investigation.

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