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The Civil Police of the state of Pará, in the north of Brazil, identified this Thursday and arrested three suspects of causing fires in areas of preservation of the jungle in that region of the Amazon, the lung of the planet and suffering these days with Natural and premeditated fire.

According to the institution, police officers on Thursday fulfilled various arrest and search warrants within the framework of the 'Labaredas' operation in the municipality of Sao Felix do Xingú, in the southern Amazon state.

According to Commissioner José Humberto Melo, two brothers who own the Ouro Verde farm and the property manager, located within the Triunfo do Xingú Environmental Protection Area, were arrested, accused of burning 5,000 hectares of jungle.

During the police operation, which aimed to find the suspicious arsonists, workers in slavery and a revolver without documentation were found on the farm.

The suspects are going to respond to the courts for charges of environmental damage, pollution, fire and criminal association. The authorities also carried out search warrants in other haciendas of the suspects in the state of Goiás (center).

Investigators suspect that the trio would have paid some fifty men to tear down 20,000 more hectares of forest near the property.

The case is one of many isolates in which the local police of the Amazon states seek to find those responsible for the thousands of fire foci that spread in recent days through the Amazon and brought international attention.

The actions of the Government of Brazil to stop the flames in the Amazon continued this Thursday with the ban on the use of fire to prepare the land for planting, a decision that will be extended for a period of two months.

Although the felling and burning of the land in the Amazon is allowed under certain standards, and it is a common practice, used even by the natives, the measure seeks to prevent the emergence of new sources of fire, at a time when the authorities begin to control the calls.

In Pará, one of the three states most affected by fire, the burn went from 1,004 on August 13 to 352 on the 28th of the same month, a reduction of 64.9%.

For the Environmental Research Institute of the Amazon (Ipam), of the 27,000 registered outbreaks of fire, in August alone, most are related to deforestation in the region, which reached 2,254.8 square kilometers in July, a volume a 278% higher than the same month of the previous year.

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, strongly criticized for his speech in favor of agribusiness and mining in the Amazon and for a late reaction to the fires, again minimized their impact on their weekly broadcast on Thursday by the social networks.

"It has been a hectic week, but the average this year (of fires) is not the highest, we wanted it to be zero, but it is not the highest as they say and the jungle as such is difficult to burn because it is wet and high ", said the president.

For the head of state, his French colleague Emmanuel Macron, who conditioned the aid of the G7 and the ratification of the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) to Brazil's environmental commitments, "placed sovereignty over the Amazonia. "

"I thank (the president of Chile, Samuel) Piñera, Spain to (the president of the United States, Donald) Trump for defending Brazil in the G7. The Amazon is very important and on September 6 in Leticia, Colombia, we will be with the presidents of Peru and Ecuador to think and discuss this matter, "he said.

According to Bolsonaro, the help offered by Macron "is a handout. Brazil is worth much more than twenty million dollars. Show me a replanted hectare and I know that this money is mostly for the 'oenegeros'. There is little that goes to the reforestation".

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