![]() This is understood to belong to a former Danish footballer of Sudanese origin, Pione Sisto. Kenny/ Pinheiro is not, however, the owner of the land. He is understood to have other children living at the Kingdom of Pineal. Martin Kenny/ Água Akhabi Pinheiro has appeared in the past on English breakfast television, as a member of the Flat Earth Society. ![]() There are believed to be around 40 people within the ‘Kingdom’, which operates on 4.7 hectares of land, and describes itself as “ a sovereign autonomous nation state of living men and women co-existing within the remit of extraterritorial jurisdiction in accordance with Portuguese and international LAW”. One, by the name of Jah, told them “Men, women and children live here, and we want the best for everyone”. Journalists from the paper claim to have visited the sect in the village of Seixo da Beira, but no members appear to have been very willing to talk to them. Says Correio da Manhã, Jorge Leitão of the PJ’s central division has said: “it is up to public prosecutors to question the facts and define a strategy of investigation, as well as collaboration with organs of the criminal police”. But beyond that, very little is moving forwards. The local town council is said to have made a complaint to child protection services – because of “the number of children living within the sect”, and the fact that “none of them go to local schools, attend health centres, appear to have any ‘generally accepted’ medical check-ups”. Since the concerns registered by these parents, understood to live in Loulé in the Algarve – and others in the immediate area – media interest in the ‘Kingdom of Pineal’ has heightened. But – again according to Correio da Manhã – the Portuguese parents of a young woman living in the sect (with a seven-month-old daughter herself) are supremely concerned by what has been allowed to go on, with very little in the way of ‘normal controls’. ![]() ![]() Had there been no ‘anonymous report’ of Samsara’s apparent short life and cremation, Portuguese authorities would almost certainly not be investigating any of it. ![]()
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