US Youtuber still in jail after trying to visit the remote tribe on the forbidden island, where another American was killed

An American youtuber that was arrested after visiting an island outside the limits in the Indian ocean in the hope of establishing contact with a lonely tribe was stopped even less in custody on Thursday. The 24 -year -old was initially arrested more than six years after another American was delicate with arrows of the tribe on the same island.

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.

“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 less than 3 miles from 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, John Allen Chauan American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by North Sentineles islanders who apparently shot him with arrows And then he buried his body on the beach. In 2006, El Centinelo had 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. The United States Embassy in Delhi did not immediately respond to a request that confirmed the visit or any additional update on Polyakov.

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 attract attention, but did not receive a response from the islanders.

The young American had tried twice to visit the island in the past, and left a can of Coca -Cola Light and a coconut as an offering for the tribe this time after he could not contact the Sentinelese. He filmed a video of the island on his camera and picked up some sand samples before returning to his boat.

After his arrest, Charity Survival International issued a statement, qualifying the “deeply disturbing” Polisakov actions.

“Beggars believes that someone could be so reckless and idiot,” said group director Carolina Pearce. “The actions of this person not only endanger their own life, but also put the lives of the entire sentinel tribe at risk. It is very known that unpaort peoples do not have immunity to common foreign diseases such as flu or measles, which could eliminate them completely.”

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.

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