'It is unacceptable that Gov. Cláudio Castro continues this bloodbath in the favelas of Rio,' says socialist Rio state legislator renatasouzario. 'These operations do not solve the problem of violence and result in terror and deaths in the favelas.'
Special Police Operations Battalion and Coordination of Special Assets units of the military and civil police killed at least 18 people in Complexo do Alemão. The heavily armed officers attacked the community with weapons including helicopters and caveirões, the armored assault vehicles widely viewed by favela residents—almost all of whom are impoverished Black and Brown people—as symbols of deadly police repression.
At least two bystanders were killed in the attack, including 49-year-old Solange Mendes, who was reportedly shot in the head when an officer got scared when she passed in an alley, and Letícia Marinho de Sales, 50, who was shot in the chest while in a vehicle stopped at a traffic light. Police warned that the death toll could rise further.
"In the Ukrainian war and in several other conflicts, it is forbidden to use helicopters as a firing platform in civilian areas, it is an international crime. But in the slums this happens quietly, even today in Alemão, with the [armored helicopter] terrorizing residents," the Federation of Associations of Rio de Janeiro Favelas said in a statement,FAFERJ added that such state aggression"does not solve the problem of violence; on the contrary, it only makes it worse.
:"Once again, residents of Alemão get shot at, having their houses invaded and broken into, more than 400 police on foot, helicopters, and 10 caveirões, for what? How many more have to die for this war to end?"
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