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Julho 11, 2022
O Presidente da Funai “Pediu Minha Cabeça”, Denuncia Servidor
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A equipe da Agência Pública está na região para investigar e informar o público sobre as ações das...
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The indigenist and employee of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) since 2018, Guilherme Martins, says in an interview with Agência Pública that the general coordinator of Isolated Indians and Recent Contact (CGIIRC), Geovânio Pantoja Katukina, was negligent in the search for his colleague Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips.
Guilherme reports having participated, on June 13—more than a week after the disappearance of the two in Vale do Javari—in a meeting with Katukina, in which he admitted having opened only one internal process regarding the case, which requested the commitment to hire three boats to help in the search.
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"There is a necessary diplomacy in inter-institutional communications. You can't, for example, just talk by WhatsApp with the Army commander—if even that was done by the CGIIRC. If the CGIIRC did not instruct specific processes in the SEI about the searches for Bruno, how did Funai at the central level talk to the Army, talk to the Navy, talk to the Federal Police? Without the processes it is not possible to know. Everything indicates that if this dialogue happened, as far as we know, it took place on an informal level, which is absurd," said the indigenist.
He explains that the SEI is the Electronic Information System—the official system of the Executive Branch that centralizes all the processes. For a document to exist officially before the Brazilian State, "it needs to be formally materialized in a process in the SEI."
