Brazilians in a Rio favela line up bodies after the city’s deadliest police raid • FRANCE 24

It’s a gruesome lineup on a main road of Complexo de Penna, one of Rio’s largest favllas. These residents lay out the lifeless bodies of their neighbors a day after the bloodiest anti-gang operation in the city’s history. The raid mobilized 2500 law enforcement officers to combat the territorial expansion of Commando Vermelo, Rio’s main criminal organization, which operates in these densely populated workingclass neighborhoods. While police raids are frequent, Tuesday’s operation was shocking in its scale and human toll. Some residents denounced what they called executions. The government paid for this to carry out this massacre. They have to pay for it. They can’t destroy so many lives, so many families and get away with it. Is that right? What kind of operation is this? What has changed? Did they introduce any sports, any studies, anything to improve the lives of young people? They haven’t changed anything. Tuesday, a steady stream of vehicles arrived at these hospital doors carrying bodies and those wounded by gunfire. The right-wing governor of Rio state initially announced that 60 criminals had been neutralized, but state police now count more than 100 people killed, including several police officers. Yesterday, we delivered a hard blow to crime, showing that we are capable of winning battles, capable of playing our part. But we also have the humility and certainty to recognize that this war will not be won alone. According to this opposition politician, Governor Claudio Castro’s policy treats the Favllas as enemy territory where a license to kill prevails. He has requested an emergency meeting with the Minister of Justice. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was horrified and called for swift investigations.

After a massive police raid on a notorious drug gang, residents of a Rio de Janeiro favela spent all night collecting bodies in trucks from inside and around their urban community and then laying them down in a central square. By early morning Wednesday, at least 50 bodies of mostly young men without shirts lay on the ground in Penha, one of two sites targeted in Rio’s deadliest police operation, which is being decried by critics as Brazil’s latest example of the excessive use of force.
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45 comments

  1. Don't feel bad for this criminals. They are the most violent!!! They Kill innocent people for nothing. Brazilians are celebrating

  7. R.I.P., cops all around the world fighting against organised crime. Thanks for making the world a safer place

  11. that is legit operation since the thugs has arm positions compare to philippines every victims a were planted

  13. Why politics on this ? Politicians supporting such drug dealers also should be sent where they deserve better

  15. You don't worry about the rights and feelings of cockroaches. You take a blowtorch and BURN THE NEST. GOOD JOB BRAZIL!!❤❤

  25. What these people need to learn is the saying if you can't do the time don't do the crime if you were a criminal drug dealer whatever and you get shot by the cops and die that's your fault you were the criminal breaking the law

  29. The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) has been promoting a judicial dictatorship in Brazil for over 15 years… Lula is a corrupt and cowardly thief! Criminals vote for him, and the ballot boxes were rigged by the STF to put Lula in power

  33. It’s heartbreaking but these are the sacrifices the communities are going to have to take to make it safer . And I do hope these people do get justice for the wrong doing that happen but these gangs are literally using the communities as shields as well . Trying to blend in with the rest of the population and it’s hard to tell the difference on either side of the war . So don’t just blame the police .. blames the thugs that are literally ripping these communities apart . Is the government is suppose to allow them to expand ? Or work out a deal with them ? No … personally I wouldn’t think it’s smart . The only thing I wish the police would do is provide safe passage and aid . Which doesn’t seems like that’s not going to happen anytime soon

  34. welldone Brazilian police, exterminate all these varmints, understand there're innocent people become collateral victims, but such operations are necessary and for human rights groups, they're more concerned with these crims than the residences who suffered with these illicit activities.

  44. Pray for Brazil. Learned Brazilian Portuguese in college and always felt a deep connection to Brazilian history and culture. Love from USA, as an Irish-American.

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