Nueva Delhi-a 24-year-old American YouTuber who was arrested after visiting an island out of the limits in the Indian Ocean hoping to establish contact with a lonely tribe was stopped even more in custody on Thursday.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov will then present to a local court in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, on April 29, said the police.
Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after stepping on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island in an attempt to meet people from the lonely Sentineles tribe.
He left a coca can -diet and a coconut as an offering for the tribe this time after he could not contact Sentineles. He filmed a video of the island on his camera and picked up some sand samples before returning to his boat.
“It can be affirmed that it is an adventure trip, but the fact is that there has been a violation of the Indian laws. The outsiders who meet with Sentinele could endanger the survival of the tribe,” said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity since he is not authorized to talk about the case under investigation.
It is suspected that Polyakov violates Indian laws that have a possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine.
Visitors are prohibited from traveling within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of North Sentinel island, whose population has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The inhabitants use spears and arches and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small island. Deeply suspicious of strangers, they attack anyone who lands on their beaches.
In 2018, an American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by Isleños by North Sentineles who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach. In 2006, the Sentineles killed two fishermen who had accidentally landed on the shore.
An official of the US Consulate. UU. He visited Polyakov in jail earlier this week. “We take our commitment to help US citizens abroad and we are monitoring the situation,” said the United States embassy in New Delhi in a statement, while declining disseminate more details due to privacy considerations.
Police said Polyakov had conducted detailed investigations on sea conditions, tides and accessibility to the island before starting their trip. He stayed on the beach for about an hour, blowing a whistle to get attention, but did not receive a response from the islanders.
Upon his return, he was seen by local fishermen, who informed the authorities and Polyakov was arrested in Port Blair, an archipelago to almost 750 miles east of the continent of India.
