反毒记者生命的最后时光

In the summer of 2002, a powerful drug gang that controlled one of Rio de Janeiro's most crime-ridden favelas brutally murdered the leading Brazilian investigative journalist Tim Lopes. Mike Lanchin has been speaking to his son Bruno.

It was early June, 2002, the first week of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. And like many other Brazilians, Bruno had been up all night watching the national team play. He woke up late in the afternoon and immediately he knew something was wrong.

I watched my father's picture on the TV, and the journalist who was saying like: The journalist Tim Lopes has disappeared since yesterday. And he went to the favela and he was supposed to come back but he's still not back.

How did you react Bruno seeing that news?

I was first like completely paralysed and I said, "What happened? What happened? Please tell me. Don't hide me anything. I do wanna know what happened."

But till that stage, no one could tell Bruno exactly what had happened to his father.

The Brazilian authorities are investigating the disappearance of a television journalist who was working on the story about alleged drug trafficking and the sexual abuse of young girls in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. During a raid in the area on Monday, the police found traces of blood, fragments of videotape and charred human remains which have been sent for forensic tests.