Representatives of the federal and federal governments are due to meet on February 6th to try to reach a compromise on the fate of the building that housed the (Department of Political and Social Order) during the .
the Ministry of Human Rights wants to transform the space into a memory center, like the one in São Paulo, also built at the Dops headquarters and which receives around 80 thousand visitors per year.
However, Rio de Janeiro, which occupies the building, wants the place to become its own museum and cultural center.
Special advisor for the Defense of Democracy, Memory and Truth at the Ministry of Human Rights, states that the conciliation was scheduled to also inform the government of Rio de Janeiro that the property still belongs to the Union. At the hearing, he says he will bring documents that prove that. The meeting will be attended by members of the SPU (Union Heritage Secretariat).
As soon as it was created, in 1910, the building housed the Civil Police Headquarters of the Federal District, when the . Sambistas and other groups persecuted at the time were detained in the building. During the government, they were imprisoned and, during the dictatorship, political prisoners occupied the prison.
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