private documents reveal that the government knew that the peasants wanted to light the fire three days before

The Pará Federal Prosecutor's Office (MPF) sent a letter to Ibama, a government agency Ministry of the Environment of Brazil, Three days before the fire in the Amazon to inform that Rural producers had the intention to burn in the municipality to support Jair Bolsonaro.

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On August 10, how did you hear about the magazine? Rural balloon, Trade unionists, farmers, merchants and land grabbers, gathered through a WhatsApp group, gathered more than 70 people from Altamira and Novo Progresso to burn down the shores of BR-163, a road connecting Pará region at the river ports of the Tapajós River and the state of Mato Grosso.

His intention was to show the President Jair Bolsonaro who support their ideas of "loosening" economic support to Ibama and perhaps to obtain the forgiveness of the fines for violation of the environment. The Prosecutor's document, which warned the government of the day of the fire to which Globo Rural magazine had access, also required an IBAMA emergency plan in case of "confirmation of the aforementioned event".

The firefighting plan, scheduled for 10, was published by the newspaper Folha do Progresso, by Novo Progresso. Sunday afternoon, on Twitter, Sergio Moror, the minister confirmed that the federal police will investigate the unit between farmers, trade unionists and land usurpers burn the margins of the BR-163, as reported in a report from Globo Rural Magazine.