Public Security Secretariat reported that he reported that 7,800 police and 3,600 vehicles are mobilized throughout the state to contain the attacks, but there is no official conclusion about the causes yet
The city of already registered 855 cases of vandalism and municipal bus depredation in 2025, according to a survey by the Union of Urban Passenger Public Transport Companies of São Paulo (Spurbanuss). The data consider only buses that circulate within the capital and do not include intercity collectives or other regions of the state. The number of attacks has increased in recent weeks, even after the state government set up a special security operation. On Monday (7), the largest number of occurrences in a single day was recorded: 59 collectives were damaged in different parts of the city. According to the union, the most violent month so far has been June, with 270 cases, which represents an average of three depredated buses per day.
The Secretariat of Public Security reported that it reported that 7,800 police and 3,600 vehicles are mobilized across the state to contain the attacks, but there is no official conclusion about the causes yet. The Civil Police work with two main lines of investigation: dispute between transportation companies and action coordinated by criminal faction, such as the CCP. Cases motivated by challenges created on the Internet are also calculated. One of the prisoners is suspected of shooting a stone at a bus on Washington Luís Avenue, in the South Zone, on June 27, seriously injuring a passenger. According to investigators, he is the son of a bus driver, which reinforces the hypothesis that part of the violence may be related to rivalries within the sector itself.
In January, the City of São Paulo banned the Upbbus and Transwolff vehicles from operating in the city, which intensified the dispute over lines. Between June 1st and July 1st, the central region concentrated the largest number of attacks (80), followed by the South Zone (51). The hardest affected companies were Viação Metrópole (41 occurrences), Mobibrasil (39), Santa Brígida (32) and Via Southeast (27). The roads report difficulty in replacing damaged glasses, and, in case of attack, vehicles are sent for maintenance and replaced by Bus from the Technical Reserve. SPTrans reported that 338 vehicles have been deprecated since June 12, but did not comment on the cases prior to that date.
Posted by Sarah Paula
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