A police operation targeting a gang caused the death of 26 people on Tuesday, May 24, in informal neighborhoods in the north of Rio de Janeiro. This is one of the interventions of the deadliest police in the history of the city.
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He wants to show the trajectory followed by the ball. From its reserve of water outside his house, through the refrigerator glued to the wooden wall, to the shredded curtain, hiding a windowless ventilation at the end of the single room. He did not find the projectile which had to get lost in the forest in the distance, but the impacts are clearly visible: both its reserve of water and its refrigerator are unusable. The man says he is “miraculously survived”, lengthening on the bed one meter from the fridge and mimicking the whistling and the course of ammunition just above his face: “I slept with my wife and my Girl, the ball has passed no more than 20 cm of our faces. “
Jurists of the Public Defense Office, responsible for investigating the abuses of the police, are busy in the wooden barracks, located in the little favela de Terra Broom (land promised), in Rio de Janeiro. They came to collect testimonies in this informal district, where several bodies were found after the police operation on Tuesday May 24 which left at least 26 dead and three injured, one of the most deadly interventions in the history of Rio. “The police killed him right behind the house, I saw everything,” said the man’s wife. It shows lawyers a space between the wooden slats where you can see the dry linen. “They killed him with a knife, he was injured, he had no weapons.” Her husband designates blood spots.
The defender General of the State of Rio, Andrea Castro, confirms: “Killing with a knife is a common practice of agents of the special military police, the BOPE, known for its many violations and its cruelty.” By Fear of reprisals, the couple does not want to give their name or phone, but ends up taking that of lawyers. “I just want help to leave and forget that night,” said the woman.
an operation of more than eight hours
The police operation in this favelas complex in the northern area of Rio began at 4 am in the Favela de Vila Cruzeiro, before expanding Terra Broadida, and lasted more than eight hours. It is on the road which leads to this little Favela, wedged between the complexes of Penha and Alemão, that we have the most dead. Around noon, the public defense team asked for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to be able to evacuate several wounded.
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