Exclusive - Brazil's Chapecoense air crash widows decry 'abandonment'


SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The families of Brazilians killed in the Chapecoense air crash are appealing for justice and reparations and said in interviews on Wednesday that they feel "abandoned" by the football club and media companies.

On the same day that Chapecoense players met the Pope in Rome, representatives from the Association of Families and Friends of the Victims of the Chapecoense Flight told Reuters more must be done to help them financially and psychologically.

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