8/16/2019 Rye Hunt press conference - update

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Brazilian police spokeswoman Elen Souto addresses the

media with an update on Rye Hunt

(Translated from Portugese)

"He was in the hotel and consumed the drug MDMA, known as

Michael Douglas, he used the drug with his friend in the hotel, but

it seems that this drug has to be used diluted in water, and he

inhaled the drug.

He used the drug in the hostel and then went to a party, Roots of

Lapa, help in Lapa, inhaled the drug again at the party, using it inan inadequate way and mixed it with vodka.

 At that point, he had a psychotic episode, him and his friend, they

started to think that people were chasing them and they were

thrown out of the party.

In the second episode, he was injured by sea creatures, asking

for water and when he was asked how he arrived on the island he

said he had swum there and that he was Australian.In addition to that information, we carried out searches on

Monday and Tuesday through a maritime group in Botafogo,

which searched around Cotonduba island, and yesterday,

Tuesday, a fire service rescue team carried out searches on the

island, which in inhabitable (sic).

Our hypothesis is that if he is alive and he has not yet made

contact with his family, he has not yet returned to his full mentalstate, and we are monitoring all police centres to check all

unidentified cadavers with fingerprints and in the future with DNA

check to ensure we correctly identify Rye.”