“”, said the governor of , announcing a Civil Police operation aboard the helicopter where an “elite sniper” fired shots towards favelas.
The governor of this episode is not (), but a predecessor in methods: former federal judge and governor Wilson Witzel (PSC).
The events occurred in 2019. Witzel was elected governor of Rio. He was removed in 2021 and convicted in impeachment proceedings for corruption.
He was considered an ally of Bolsonaro, who reportedly broke when the former judge announced his intention to run for President of the Republic.
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Cláudio Castro, who was Witzel’s vice-governor, considered Operation Containment against the Red Command “a success.”
“Apart from taking the lives of the police officers, the rest of the operation was a success,” said the governor. “As victims, yesterday, there, we only had the police.”
Witzel threatened banditry in Angra dos Reis: “Don’t go out with a rifle on the street, no. Exchange it for a Bible. If you go out [com um fuzil]we’re going to kill you.”
While feeding, Witzel visited police headquarters and did push-ups on the floor. Demonstrations of physical strength, barracks values.
“This was truly the biggest police operation in the history of Rio de Janeiro, and I hope it remains, because Rio needs operations like these every day,” said the senator (PL), praising Castro.
When the arrest of the ineligible father became inescapable, 01 appealed to 03’s surrender strategy: pointing out to foreigners the targets to be bombed. In rivers, on the coast, in the Amazon and among opponents in Congress. In the Judiciary, Alexandre de Moraes was the first to be targeted.
At the time of Witzel’s provocations there was another Bolsonaro nearby.
Former federal judge Eduardo Cubas, then president of the tiny National Union of Federal Judges of Brazil, based in Goiás, .
Witzel was reported to the UN and the OAS for the record number of deaths in police operations.
Alongside federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, Cubas questioned the security of electronic voting machines in a video recorded outside the headquarters of the Superior Electoral Court. It happened on the eve of the 2018 elections.
helped to elect (PL) and stimulated the climate that led to the coup acts of January 8th.
Cubas flattered the Army command. Supported the truck drivers’ strike. It was in 2024, in a unanimous decision by the CNJ (National Council of Justice), .
A poker player, champion in international disputes over the internet, Cubas knew how to bluff and had the funds to hire the defense of lawyer Eugênio Aragão, former Minister of Justice.
Operation Containment overcame the Carandiru massacre, whose military police officers were amnestied by Bolsonaro. , initiative of the Bolsonarista governor (Republicans).
On the occasion, the governor of São Paulo also paid tribute to the troops of the then Secretary of Public Security, Guilherme Derrite, whose defense policy for society included beating wheelchair users or throwing suspects off a bridge.
Tarcísio distributed medals to presidents of the Court of Justice, to promote the Rota (Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar).
The climate of terror in Rio was installed on the eve of the outcome of the criminal case against the former president.
The process could end in December, with Bolsonaro’s arrest beginning later this year.
The macabre display of bodies along a large avenue, filmed from the same angle as the drones in which the Red Command dropped bombs, suggests a sinister message.
Don’t come and disrupt our business.
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