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Follow RT on A massive police operation in Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho slums resulted in the death of two dozen suspected criminals, one officer, and several injured police and civilians – including subway passengers caught in the crossfire. More than 200 Brazilian police officers raided the third-largest favela in Rio, home to over 60,000 residents, on Thursday morning. Local media reported heavy gunfire and explosions in Jacarezinho, and spoke of rifle-armed militants jumping across roofs to escape the police. Multiple Brazilian social media users described the confrontation as...

The death sentences of Bruno Barros, 29, and his nephew Yan Barros, 19, were signed on April 26 in the supermarket Atakadão Atakarejo. The pair tried to steal four trays of meat and were caught in the act, and staff did not hesitate to hand the two men over to a notorious criminal gang, who tortured and murdered them. Their bodies were left in the trunk of a car, echoing the words of Brazilian artist Elza Soares on her 2002 album Do Cóccix Ate o Pescoço: “The cheapest meat in the market is Black.” Violent deaths linked to supermarkets are far from unusual in Brazil. Joã...

It would be one of his last acts. About 30 minutes later, witnesses say a small group of police special forces appeared outside on Saint Manuel lane, a narrow alleyway at the heart of Jacarezinho, one of the city’s largest favelas. Rifles raised, they advanced up two flights of stairs to Luciana’s door. One barged inside, pursuing the injured – and apparently unarmed man – into her nine-year-old daughter’s pink-walled bedroom, where a sign above the bed reads: “Here sleeps a princess.” The girl’s father, André Franklin, remembers hearing one, possibl...

Rio de Janeiro: UN calls for probe into deadliest police raid The United Nations has called for a probe into one of the deadliest police raids in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro which killed 28 people. The United Nations is amongst some of the organisations that have called for a probe into one of the deadliest police raids that took place on Thursday, 6 May in Rio de Janeiro. A police raid in Jacarezinho, one of largest slums known as favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil led to the death of 28 people including a police officer. The raid was carried out by about 200 heavily armed police officers and i...

Published on: Saturday, May 08, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Residents protest after a police operation against alleged drug traffickers at the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO: A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela has left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. A policeman was among those killed in the early morning raid on Jacarezinho, on Rio’s north side, where residents awoke to explosions, heavy gunfire and helicopters overhead....