The operation, carried out on Tuesday, mobilized around 2,500 agents and aimed to execute 100 arrest warrants for members of the Red Command.
At least 132 people were killed during a police operation in Rio de Janeiro, according to the state’s Public Defender’s Office this Wednesday, one day after the operation was carried out.
Several mourners are, at this time, gathering on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, close to the site of the operation, as they watch the bodies being placed in a square in the Penha neighborhood.
held on Tuesday, mobilized around 2,500 agents and aimed to execute 100 arrest warrants for members of Comando Vermelho, one of the main drug trafficking factions in Brazil.
The alleged drug traffickers responded by blocking several roads in the north of Rio de Janeiro, where the operation took place.
The operations and blockades caused interruptions in the circulation of around a hundred bus lines and the closure of dozens of schools and health centers.
