According to the Rio Civil Police, young men planned a “brutal” murder and make live through Discord in exchange for money
A and inform you that it was held on the morning of Easter Sunday (20.abr.br.2025) an operation to prevent the murder of a homeless man for a possible criminal organization who, according to the authorities, planned to transmit the crime over the internet.
In, the Civil Police states that agents from DCAV (Police Station of Children and Adolescent Victim) and the 19th Police Station detained 3 men in Vicente de Carvalho, in the northern zone of the state capital, and in Bangu, in the West Zone. The arrest warrants were fulfilled with the support of CIBERLAB (Laboratory of Cyber Operations), the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
The identities of the homeless man who would be the target of the attack and the 3 detainees were not disclosed. Also according to the Civil Police, the arrested men are young, were part of the “Core of the organization that intended to murder a street resident brutally” and transmit the crime through Discord, “In exchange for money”. They are pointed out as leaders of the virtual criminal community.
“The agents [investigadores] They investigated the existence of a network of young people who used the platform to perform and disseminate atrocities such as animal abuse, induction of self-mutilation, virtual rape, racism and incitement to crime, as a form of “entertainment” ”says the Civil Police, adding that the group also promoted digital attacks on hate against blacks, women and adolescents, “With serious consequences in the real world”.
Also in, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security states that Ciberlab servers identified, on social networks, messages about the homicide and crime display plan on social networks. “The investigated articulated practices of extreme cruelty, associated with hate discourses, extremist symbologies, religious radicalism and other manifestations of extremism.”said the organ.
“One of them publicly presented itself as an environmental and protective activist of animals, which brutally contrasted with their conduct in the networks, where it promoted and shared acts of extreme violence and perversity.”said the ministry. According to the Civil Police, this same man has participated in several international environmental events.
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