US EditionBrazilian Police Operation in Rio Favelas Leaves at Least 8 Dead, Including Local Drug Boss
Operation targeted Claudio Augusto dos Santos and resulted in eight deaths, seizures of weapons, arrests, and retaliatory attacks disrupting Rio's city center, police said.
- On Wednesday, Brazilian military police including elite BOPE killed seven presumed traffickers including Cláudio Augusto dos Santos and a local resident in shootout across six Rio favelas.
- Acting on intelligence, police localized dos Santos and planned the raid after he faced at least eight outstanding arrest warrants amid Rio de Janeiro's long security struggles.
- In retaliation, criminals set fire to a bus and blocked roads in central Rio, with Márcio Sousa, bus driver, saying attackers boarded with two bottles of gasoline; AFP journalists saw barricades, and police made four arrests.
- Maintaining a long-term presence, military police will remain indefinitely to guarantee freedom of movement, Menezes Nogueira said, while operations across 15 states targeted trafficking organizations on Wednesday.
- Brasil is lobbying Washington against designating First Capital Command and Red Command as terrorists, while Lula calls the raid a 'massacre', officials reported.
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On this Thursday, during a police operation in five favelas controlled by the Red Command in the central area of Rio, six suspects and a resident were shot within a quarter of the lower road of Petrópolis, in Rio Comprido. Images of the real estate filled with brands of fire and blood were viral throughout the social networks. The scene, despite shock, is not a novelty. In February 2019, less than a mile from where yesterday's deaths took place,…
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Brazilian police operation in Rio favelas leaves at least 8 dead, including local drug boss
A police raid in a Rio de Janeiro favela has left at least eight people dead. Police say seven of those killed in the police operation are presumed drug-traffickers.
Groups linked to the narco burned down collectives and obstructed several accesses this Wednesday in the Rio Comprido area.The attacks occurred in response to the murder of a drug-trafficking leader during a raid by the Military Police in El Morro dos Prazeres.The security deployment, carried out in Rio de Janeiro, resulted in at least eight deaths.The Batalhão unit of Operações Policiais Spieciais (Bope) entered the settlements in the early hou…
The Brazilian police authorities reported that after Wednesday's radio Claudio Augusto dos Santos was killed, one of the powerful criminal group commanders "Comando Vermelho" (Red Command), according to Al Jazeera. The chief of police, Marcelo Menezes Nogueira, said that the radio led to a "major armed confrontation". Dos Santos and six other suspects were killed, and a local man would have been caught in the fire after he had been taken hostage…
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