Top Brazil reporter allegedly killed by drug lord01. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A leading Brazilian journalist, who had been missing for a02. week, was confi rmed killed Sunday, with Rio police saying a drug lord tortured him and03. then shot him to death.04. Tim Lopes, 51, who worked for Brazilian television network TV Globo, disappeared on05. June 2 after he slipped into a party given by a drug gang. He had planned to report on06. the drug trade and alleged sexual abuse of young girls.07. His driver sounded the alarm when Lopes failed to meet him as they had arranged.08. Charred fragments and traces of blood were later found in a cave near the slum.The 09. caves, known locally as "microwaves," are used by drug traffi ckers to burn their10. victims' bodies.11. Police arrested four suspects Sunday.12. Citing a statement from one of the detainees, police said the journalist was tortured.13. Rio's head of civilian police, Zaqueu Teixeira, said Lopes had been shot personally by14. a drug lord known as Elias Maluco.15. "We are working vigorously to catch Elias Maluco and his gang members," Teixeira16. told TV Globo Sunday. "This was a heinous crime, a barbarous act and the police have17. to give a response to society."18. Rio's slums, or "favelas," are crawling with drugs and crime above the city's famous20. Lopes had entered the slum four times, two of them reporting with a hidden camera.21. TV Globo said in a statement on Sunday: "Tim died while exercising the profession22. that he so dearly loved, in defense of a population that is powerless in the face of the23. terror of (drug) traffi cking and organized crime."According to the text,Tim Lopes had never entered a slum before.Tim Lopes was a victim of sexual abuse.Until now, nobody has been arrested by the police.There have been rumors of sexual abuse of younggirls.The caves are used as places for microwavessmuggling.
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Nota-se, durante a leitura do texto que o tema está voltado para a confirmação da morte de um talentoso jornalista no interior de uma favela localizada na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. O mesmo foi torturado e morto, queimado.
Além disso, o texto evidencia que o jornalista estava em busca de respostas acerca de uma suspeita de abuso de jovens meninas na localidade. Logo: "There have been rumors of sexual abuse of younggirls."
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