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A police raid and ensuing clashes with a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 119 people dead, including 115 suspects and four policemen, officials said Wednesday, a day after the massive operation drew criticism for using excessive force.

The death toll was an increase over what authorities originally said was 60 suspected gang members and four policemen killed in Tuesday’s one-day raid by about 2,500 police and soldiers in two low-income neighborhoods of the city.

Police spokesman Felipe Curi told a news conference that additional bodies were found in a wooded area around one of the neighborhoods where he said they had worn camouflage clothing while battling with security forces. He said local residents had removed clothing and equipment from the bodies in what he said would be investigated as tampering with evidence.

“These individuals were in the woods, equipped with camouflage clothing, vests and weapons. Now many of them appeared wearing underwear or shorts, with no equipment, as if they had come through a portal and changed clothes,” Curi said.

Earlier Wednesday, in the neighborhood of Penha, residents had surrounded many of the bodies, collected in trucks and displayed in a main square, and shouted “massacre” and “justice” before forensic authorities arrived to retrieve the remains.

The tally of suspects arrested in Tuesday’s raid stood at 113 — up from 81 cited previously, Curi said. Earlier, the state government said 93 rifles and more than half a ton of drugs were seized.

The police raid had drawn gunfire and other retaliation from gang members, causing scenes of chaos across the city on Tuesday. Schools in the affected areas shuttered, a local university canceled classes, and roads were blocked with buses used as barricades.

On Wednesday morning, local activist Raull Santiago said he was part of a team in Penha that found about 15 bodies before dawn.

“We saw executed people: shot in the back, shots to the head, stab wounds, people tied up. This level of brutality, the hatred spread - there’s no other way to describe it except as a massacre,” Santiago said.

Rio state Gov. Claudio Castro said on Tuesday that Rio was at war against “narco-terrorism,” a term that echoed the Trump administration in its campaign against drug smuggling in Latin America.

Rio’s state government said that those who had been killed had resisted police.

Rio has been the scene of lethal police raids for decades. In March 2005, some 29 people were killed in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense region, while in May 2021, 28 were killed in the Jacarezinho favela.

But the scale and lethality of Tuesday’s operation are unprecedented. Non-governmental organizations and the U.N. human rights body quickly raised concerns over the high number of reported fatalities and called for investigations.

The operation’s stated objectives were capturing leaders and limiting the territorial expansion of the Red Command criminal gang, which has increased its control over favelas in recent years.

Gang members allegedly targeted police with at least one drone. Rio de Janeiro’s state government shared a video on X of what appeared to show a drone firing a projectile from the sky.

Gov. Castro, from the conservative opposition Liberal Party, said Tuesday that Rio was “alone in this war.” He said the federal government should be providing more support to combat crime — in a swipe at the administration of leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

His comments were challenged by the Justice Ministry, which said it had responded to requests from Rio’s state government to deploy national forces in the state, renewing their presence 11 times.

Gleisi Hoffmann, the Lula administration’s liaison with the parliament, agreed that more coordinated action was needed but pointed to a recent crackdown on money laundering as an example of the federal government’s action on organized crime.

Lula’s chief of staff, Rui Costa, requested an emergency meeting Wednesday in Rio with local authorities and Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski.

Criminal gangs have expanded their presence across Brazil in recent years, including in the Amazon rainforest.

Filipe dos Anjos, secretary general of favela rights’ organization FAFERJ, said that these kind of police operations don’t solve the problem as those who were killed are easily replaceable.

“In about thirty days, organized crime will already be reorganized in the territory, doing what it always does: selling drugs, stealing cargo, collecting payments and fees,” he said.

“In terms of concrete results for the population, for society, this kind of operation achieves practically nothing,” he added.

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Disturbing Video:
https://x.com/BrettAMacDonald/status/1983575674246795276?t=0-UOZwqSJgzFP4BYrQlR9Q&s=19

Nice one from the Brazilian government.....drug cartels are soulless....

omooooo this one na massacre ooo

the second picture is heartbreaking

Omo see machines everywhere

tunjijones:
How many south easterner dey among them?

If it’s in Nigeria, your god and personal saviour Tinubu would pardon them .. It’s not a coincidence why most people he pardoned are drug barons

90% of them are not useful to the society.

Good Riddance to bad rubbish!

VOsimhen144:
What we do to conquer poverty

Jara mose
Labourer work dey
Peasant farming dey

Thank God our so called leader left this group

tunjijones:
How many south easterner dey among them?

South Eastetners are duly represented by their president who is likely a majority shareholder in the enterprise

I think say na only nigeria police dey comot criminals trouser.


Modified.
OK police say no be dem comot am

Lessons to be learnt. It’s better to be alive and locked up than dead - for the sake of your loved ones and logic

Wow ! This is a bloody massacre. I am short of words honestly . This will go down in history as one of the most brutal use of force…..A whole 119 people kpai like fowl in a bloody shoot-out. Choi !

Na human beings o
Chai
Say no to drug by dealing or taking.

Omo too many lost souls
That's what Nigerian government need to do to those bandits and book boys them

Brazil government do give a bleep

so the police went in and killed the citizens

so there are no diplomatic or strategic approach to this situation without massacre


d president is gone

One one of them is sitting as the president of A populous nation. Life no balance o.

Latin American is suffering from drug cartels, from Colombia, Mexico and Brazil.

See abled bodied men whose lives were wasted for nothing. These parents would have been happy when these ones were born.....what way to end

I still wonder why people would join a drug cartel whose only end Is prison or death with a life of constantly looking over one's shoulders

this is disadvantage of being a street level drug dealer. they take the highest risk and are at the bottom of the food chain while the barons remain untouchable, living in mansions and flying private jets

cant wait for the hollywood movie version to be out

remind me of the movie: City Of God

tunjijones:
How many south easterner dey among them?

😁😁😁😁😁😊
Plenty plenty....
From their names they are more than half.

chiiraq802:
Nice one from the Brazilian government.....drug cartels are soulless....

u are more soulless


do u know how many people they made fatherless and depressed over this


isn't alcohol of same status as Narcs before the prohibition ended ?


killing people over this is not worth it


same way they killed alcohol dealers back then

Brazil doesn't want to wait until Donald trump parks an aircraft carrier off their coast. An aircraft carrier off your coast usually means your ass is toast as the head of your country.

Trump may be a mad man. But if this is what it takes to put an end to the global trade in drugs, I'm all for it.

chiiraq802:
Nice one from the Brazilian government.....drug cartels are soulless....

Some of you have no empathy until something similar happens to you.

Imagine Nigeria police raiding an area and you were shoot and killed in the process, then someone on Nairaland writes “Nice one”.

Do you know how many innocence people would have been killed. If an area is notorious for a vice, let’s apply common sense: is it everyone there that is into that vice? Of course not. Don’t forget people live mostly where they can afford.

Be careful while mocking others, it is one of the things God hates. Do you know how many people have mocked and something similar befell them,I pray you don’t get a taste of this.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aTMpROW6Jw

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“We saw executed people: shot in the back, shots to the head, stab wounds, people tied up. This level of brutality, the hatred spread - there’s no other way to describe it except as a massacre,” Santiago said.

Disturbing Video:
https://x.com/BrettAMacDonald/status/1983575674246795276?t=0-UOZwqSJgzFP4BYrQlR9Q&s=19[/quote]At bolded this is what someone is saying “Nice one” to? Police should just brace themselves l. People that make children fatherless should not expect to live long to raise their own children.

Ohhh boiiiiii


South Americans be like Fulani...dem no hear "abeg"

Both Police and the drug cartel are made of the same cloth....So the wotowoto was fire for fire

At least the dead have rested while the living will likely calm down a bit