“Murder of Brazil official marks new low in war on Amazon environmentalists-Luiz Alberto Araújo, a local government official in Pará state, was gunned down in front of his family: ‘It sends a message that no one is untouchable’”, 24 October 2016

...Luiz Alberto Araújo, the secretary for the environment on the city council, arrived home with his family. Before he could get out of his car, two men on a motorcycle pulled up and the passenger shot seven bullets into the 54-year-old...The killer got off the bike, opened the car door and shot him twice more...No attempt was made to steal anything. The killing...on...13 October...had all the hallmarks of the sort of assassination that is common in the lawless Pará state,...where illegal logging, clandestine mining and modern slavery are rife. More than 150 environmental activists have been killed in Brazil since 2012, with studies showing the country accounts for half the global toll of such murders. Many of those killed…were campaigners. But Araújo was a government official,…advocates say his murder is a rare and worrying development…Billy Kyte…[of]…NGO Global Witness…[said]…“It sends a message that no one is untouchable…”…His work was a cross-section of the region’s environmental woes, from the battle against deforestation…to the consequences of the Belo Monte…dam…Araújo…had become used to receiving death threats…Marcelo Salazar, of the Socio-Environmental Institute…[said]…“He never said anything but anyone who works with the environment in Amazon towns will have a little bit of fear. It was a professional killing, there was no fight,” he added…

[It refers to Norte Energia]