MPF and DPU agree to suspend proceedings against Funai – 01/31/2023 – Mônica Bergamo

The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) and the Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU) reached an agreement with Funai (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples) to temporarily suspend a lawsuit brought against the autarchy and the Union due to conflicts in the region of Vale do Javari, in the Amazon.

Initiated in 2018, the process even included decisions taken after the murders of indigenist Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips. In July last year, for example, the 1st Federal Civil Court of the Judiciary Section of Amazonas demanded measures so that tragedies like the one of the two do not happen again.

On the last 20th, a meeting was held with the participation of the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, and representatives of the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Apib), the National Attorney for the Defense of the Climate and the Environment and civil society —in addition to Funai, DPU and MPF.

According to a letter presented by federal attorney Elder Novais to the Federal Court, at the end of the meeting the participants agreed with the temporary suspension of the process and with the holding of a judicial hearing so that a consensus can be reached on other points of the action.

The understanding would have been possible after the repositioning of Funai under the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), according to people involved.

The judicial process that must now be suspended was filed by the DPU and the MPF in 2018, in search of a solution to the conflicts in the Vale do Javari region, in Amazonas.

Unijava, the NGO where Bruno Pereira worked when he was murdered, participates in the process as amicus curiae (friend of the court), that is, as an interested party in the cause.

In addition to taking Funai to court, the MPF and DPU presented a plan so that the bases of the Ethno-environmental Protection Fronts in Amazonas start to enjoy minimum human and material resources for the effective fulfillment of their purposes.

The proposed plan had the participation of Bruno Pereira himself and 44 other people from different indigenous entities, ethnic groups and Funai employees — but it was not put into practice by previous governments.

Decisions taken within the scope of the process are already being reviewed. In November of last year, the Federal Justice imposed on Funai and the Union the execution of an ostensive inspection in the region of Vale do Javari and the adoption of necessary measures to protect life and physical integrity of the indigenous peoples that live there.

On the 16th of this month, the 1st Federal Civil Court of the Judiciary Section of Amazonas determined compliance with a new decision that suspended the effects of that taken in November.

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Criminal lawyer Antonio Claudio Mariz de Oliveira attended the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Lawyers of São Paulo (AASP), held in the city of São Paulo, on Monday night (30). The president of the OAB (Order of Lawyers of Brazil) of São Paulo, Patricia Vanzolini, attended. Lawyer Alberto Zacharias Toron was also there.

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