NSTworld: Making the arrests “was an act of aggression,” congressman Airton Faleiro told reporters at a press briefing in Brasilia organized by the environmental caucus.
The four firefighters operated in Alter do Chao region of the northern Amazonian state of Para, where a rash of blazes struck earlier this year. Police said the arson was aimed at generating donations to the volunteer fire force.
Faleiro said the government was seeking to blame the fires on nongovernmental organizations rather than on land grabbers, who environmentalists say set blazes to illegally clear virgin land for farming and ranching. Civil police for Para said in a statement that they arrested the four members of the Alter do Chao Fire Brigade as a preventative measure amid an ongoing investigation into the causes of the fires.“They filmed, published and then were called on by the government to help control the same fires that they caused,” Jose Humberto Melo Jr., an officer involved in the raid, said in a written statement.
Police said the images were used to defraud donors, including one who gave 300,000 reais to the group.Police also raided a nongovernmental organization called the Health and Happiness Project that is closely associated with fire prevention efforts.
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