Tactical teams from Rio de Janeiro’s civil and military police raided the Alemao complex to take down an alleged criminal organization.
The group was suspected of involvement in cargo theft and bank robberies and was planning incursions into rival slums, the military police said in a statement.
At least 18 people died in the raid: one police officer, 16 alleged criminals and a female bystander, police said. The operation involved around 400 officers, four aircraft and 10 armored vehicles.Residents transport a body covered with a white sheet on a cart in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 21, 2022.
A police officer walks during an operation against drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 21, 2022.After the raid, locals could be seen bundling injured people into the back of vehicles to be taken to hospital as police watched. Gilberto Santiago Lopes, from the Anacrim Human Rights Commission, said police refused to help.
“We had to carry them away in a beverage truck, and then flag a local resident in their car to take them to hospital,” he said. “ don’t aim to arrest them, they aim to kill them, so if they’re injured, they think they don’t deserve help.” Residents stand next to dead bodies during a police operation against drug gangs in Alemao slums complex on July 21, 2022.“We’re scared to live here,” one local screamed after the raid. “Where are we? Afghanistan? In a war? In Iraq? If they want a war, send them to Iraq.”
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