Shock at Brazil journalist's killing

BBC

Monday, 10 June, 2002

Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has condemned the killing of an award-winning television journalist by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro.

Mr Cardoso said the killing of Tim Lopes was an unacceptable attempt to silence the country's press.

Mr Lopes disappeared last week while investigating drug trafficking and the sexual abuse of young girls in one of Rio's slums.

Police said a suspect they had arrested on Sunday told them Mr Lopes had been tortured and shot dead by a fugitive drug lord, Elias Maluco.

Mr Lopes, 51, had been missing for a week.

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