The Civil Police, the Public Ministry of Rio (MPRJ) and the Military Police itself are investigating an operation by the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) carried out on Sunday, 21, in Complexo do Salgueiro, in São Gonçalo, after a police officer shot by drug dealers died. . This Monday morning, the 22nd, the day after the agents’ incursion, eight bodies were removed from a mangrove swamp by favela residents. By the beginning of the night, seven of the eight victims had already been identified by the Legal Medical Institute (IML) of São Gonçalo. According to police, five had criminal records or records. One of the dead with no record was found “in camouflaged clothing similar to the rest of the group,” the corporation said in a statement.
The BOPE operation came after Sgt. Leandro Rumbelsperger da Silva was attacked on Saturday during a patrol in the region. Shot, he didn’t resist. On Sunday, BOPE was informed that one of the suspects in the attack was wounded inside the favela and carried out the operation there. The action was reported to the MPRJ.
The rescue of the eight bodies from the mangrove was carried out by the favela residents themselves in the early morning. Relatives of the victims, according to community reports, entered the mud to collect the corpses. Firefighters and military police were not seen at the scene in the early hours of the day, while civil police arrived only after 10 am. Salgueiro, a poor community in a dormitory town in the Metropolitan Region of Rio, is considered very dangerous due to the action of drug traffickers. Residents claimed that the bodies were disfigured, which, for them, would be an indication of torture. The PM maintains that there was a confrontation.
“My brother was savaged, his face is unrecognizable,” said the sister of one of the dead, who gave an interview at the Instituto Médico Legal de São Gonçalo, who preferred not to be identified. “We recognized it by the body, by the tattoo with my mother’s name. He had his face disfigured by knife blows, others had their teeth pulled out, eyes pierced and gouged out, finger cut off. It wasn’t an exchange of fire. They took people by surprise, but we don’t know where.”
Her husband was responsible for identifying her brother-in-law’s body, even before the removal to the IML. “I went there to the mangrove and saw it, because it doesn’t have the structure to see it. I went there, pulled the cloth one by one and saw it with my own eyes. I saw an inhuman thing. There was a boy without an eye, another without a finger. These people were tortured before they died. My relative was involved, but we didn’t imagine finding him in that state.”
Another man’s sister gave a similar statement. “They tortured my brother, stabbed my brother in the eye, broke his arm,” he said. “My brother was skinny, he didn’t blow anyone, he couldn’t take it. Who went to catch it looks like it was to catch the mouse. My brother had a problem with his lungs, he had pins in his feet, after he had an accident. Would not run. The boy wasn’t a bad guy, he didn’t mix. Why torture him? He went to buy a beer, which he liked to drink. I didn’t want to see it, I wasn’t able to see my brother. A lot of cruelty. There are people mutilated, there are dead teenagers”. “They ripped the teenager’s fingers off, why mutilate? This is torture, it is inhumane.
According to her, the boy’s death “ended” his family. “He wasn’t involved in anything, he worked odd jobs, he took a job as a bricklayer’s assistant,” he said. “Favelado is people, we don’t live in the favela because we want to, but because we need it.”
The PM stated that, around 15:00 on Sunday, a team from the Samu was called to help an injured man in the favela, and armed criminals forced him to be removed from the scene. BOPE’s action took place near the mangrove swamp. Residents reported heavy shooting.
“The teams were attacked in the vicinity of an area of mangroves with forest, which resulted in an intense confrontation”, said the Military Police, in an official note. “In the action, two pistols were seized, 14 9mm caliber ammunition, 56 762 caliber rifle ammunition, five magazines (02 for a rifle and 03 for a pistol), a camouflage uniform, 813 marijuana tablets, 3,734 white powder bags and 3,760 bags of material similar to crack. The occurrence was registered in the 72nd DP.”
The prosecution reported in a note that the 2nd Specialized Criminal Investigation Prosecutor’s Office of Núcleo Niterói and São Gonçalo had instituted a Criminal Investigation Procedure (PIC) on the police action in the favela. The Civil Police stated that “investigations are in progress by the Homicides Police of Niterói, São Gonçalo and Itaboraí (DHNSG).” The PM announced a police-military inquiry.
According to the Civil Police, agents from the Homicide Police carried out this second inspection and carried out the first investigations in the region. They looked for witnesses and other clues to clarify the dynamics of the killings.
Rio accumulates slaughters
In the late afternoon of Monday, 22, Human Rights Watch released a note questioning the actions of the military police. “Once again, this is an operation poorly explained and full of question marks”, says the text, citing statements by the PM spokesperson about the existence of “several clashes” with “countless wounded”. “The Military Police should, therefore, clarify whether they called the aid service to attend to all the wounded and why they did not preserve the evidence in the places where the shootings took place, especially where there were deaths”, defends the organization.
The bodies found this Monday further increase the number of serial deaths in Rio this year. Data from the Security Observatories Network indicate that, until the month of October, the state registered 38 massacres, four more than in 2020. The Network also reported that 27 of them were committed by police officers, with 128 deaths recorded.
In May, 28 people were killed – one of them a civil police officer – after police action in the favela of Jacarezinho, in the northern part of Rio. The action is still being investigated and there was strong evidence of execution. So far, two agents who participated in the action have become defendants.
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