At least eleven people dead in the slum this Thursday during the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area a police operation against the leaders of a gang dedicated to drug trafficking In the Amazon state of Pará. The operation, which involved the participation of agents from elite groups of the Rio de Janeiro Civil and Military Police and the support of their counterparts from Pará (north), was carried out at the Salgueiro favela complex in the municipality of São Gonçalo.
The Regional Civil Police told EFE that the “purpose” of the operation was to “capture” the “leaders” of “Comando Vermelho”, a criminal organization that originated in Rio de Janeiro but has arms all over the country. Para province (north). The leaders were refugees from that slum in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, accused of being responsible for “attacks on public security officials in Pará” in which up to forty policemen have been killed or killed in clashes since 2021. He is suspected of “linking” to a jewelry store robbery last year at a shopping mall in Rio de Janeiro’s exclusive Barra da Tijuca neighborhood and in which a local security agent died.
This Thursday, “When you get to the city, The cops were attacked by criminals and there was an intense brawl. pull“, explained the Civil Police in detail. State news service Agencia Brasil stated: Among the dead is Leonardo Acosta Araújo, 37, known as ‘Leo 41’, who was targeted as the head of drug trafficking in Pará.. Agencia Brasil reported that two civilian women were injured during the action and were transferred to Alberto Torres Public Hospital without being informed of the seriousness of their condition. According to the Civil Police, the agents were backed by two armored helicopters and thirteen rifles were captured.
Rio de Janeiro Governor Claudio Castro also stated via his social networks that another of the organized crime leaders in Pará and the leader of the group in the northeastern state of Sergipe were also caught in the operation.