When Cariocas were accustomed to living in peace and "marvelous city" was preparing to welcome thousands of summer tourists to the beginning of 2011, the alliance of the two main drug gangs again place these days in Rio de Janeiro suspense and under fire, with a wave of attacks and counter-terror police have been planted in the streets. Six Brazilian army armored vehicles joined the police operation to fill Rio's favelas complex suburb of Penha, to end the wave of attacks by drug traffickers left 30 people dead since last weekend including innocent civilians, according to police.
According to Secretary of Public Security of Rio, the Navy's involvement in the operations shall only logistics, supply of military equipment and food for police officers who prepared the invasion of the favela of Vila Cruzeiro, and the whole Alemao, according to the intelligence service would be the main strongholds of drug traffickers. The war waged between police and drug traffickers, left so far at least 55 people, mostly suspected criminals, police said.
The situation escalated when armored naval riflemen armed with heavy caliber machine guns, and commanded by the military police arrived at the entrance of the favela (shantytown ) of Vila Cruzeiro, in the northern part of the host city 2014 World Cup and the Olympic Games in 2016.
In an unprecedented display, six of the tracked vehicles were positioned at the entrance of the slum in the suburb of Penha ( north), where authorities say dug offenders prosecuted by the police.
The operation, which began mid-morning and has no estimate of completion, is to "take control of the territory ( it was taken over by drug trafficking," a police spokesman stressed the TV Globo) . Large military vehicles with machine guns, 50 mm-ceded by Navy and never before used in these streets, proceeded with the tapes of track through the steep streets of the nose, opening the way for another six caveirões, black armored vehicles used by the BOPE. Debris left behind the barricades built by the traffickers, who fled in small factions firing their guns and took refuge in the bush, while helicopters were targeted by military police patrols.
By late afternoon, Vila Cruzeiro was under total control of government forces and drug traffickers had managed to escape down a slope of the hill, dubbed "Green Hell." The spectacular "hunt" it happened in broad daylight, with neighbors entrenched in their humble homes and television broadcasting everything from their own helicopters.
The violence began with attacks, burning of buses with petrol bombs and shooting at police posts, which in the last hours was answered by security forces in the favelas blitzes that have left 28 dead, ten wounded, 29 vehicles torched and 180 arrested. In fear, many people have started to stop going out at night, while during the day it shows much less traffic on major avenues, now patrolled by helicopters.
According to authorities, for the first time in 20 years of territorial disputes, the rival criminal factions Commando Vermelho and Amigos dos Amigos joined forces with the aim of destabilizing the largest public safety project launched by the state government, the Units of Peacekeeping Police (UPP).
Since 2008, at the initiative of Gov. Sergio Cabral, the UPP has been settled in 14 favelas of Rio de Janeiro in order to provide a safe city for the World Cup matches to be held here in 2014 and Olympic Games, you will receive in 2016. "Analysis Service of the Secretariat of Intelligence found that is having this kind of union of two factions," Security Secretary confirmed the state of Rio de Janeiro, José Mariano Beltrame, who reported also ordered the transfer of several lords of the prisons where drug dealers were arrested in other prisons, and were communicating with each other to launch attacks .
Yesterday was the bloodiest day of the counteroffensive, with 24 deaths, one of them a girl of 14 who died from a stray bullet came through the window of her house when she was studying in front computer.
But the vast majority of those killed were suspected drug traffickers from the Commando Vermelho, which dominates the slums the north of the city, especially the dangerous Complexo do Alemão, or Amigos dos Amigos, which controls drug trafficking in the Rocinha favela in the south, the largest in Latin America.
According to police, members of the Commando Vermelho were behind the arson attacks on the Linha Vermelha strategic highway that leads from downtown to the airport Tom Jobim / Galeão, while members of Amigos dos Amigos were responsible for the dreaded ( road blocks and car thefts ) that sparked panic among residents in the quiet area of \u200b\u200bthe Botanical Garden. developed in parallel by the Civil Police (with less firepower than the military police) in the favela of Jacarezinho, also north, killed seven people, which added to the 23 of the last five days, rising to 30 dead, among whom are innocent civilians, a police spokesman told AFP, and the seven who died in Jacarezinho, the police know if it's suspected drug traffickers.
Meanwhile, in other slums in the area and pacified by the police presence, as if some located in the Tijuca neighborhood, the police showed his face tense checkpoints, showing short and long arms, fearing that criminals take advantage of the situation to try to regain their former areas of traffic, according to an AFP reporter.
According to authorities, the chaos that erupted on Sunday night and also resulted in attacks on police posts, is a reaction to the installation of these units Peacekeeping Police (UPP) in 13 slums which were driven traffickers.
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