Brazil’s President calls for an investigation after the killing of a police officer in a police operation against gangs: “There was a massacre”

Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that police operations Against a powerful crime group in Rio that left 121 dead ‘these relatives.’

“There was a massacre, and I think it is important to verify the circumstances where it happened,” said Lula in the Amazon city of Belem during an interview with international news agencies, including AFP.

This page The police raided last week Against the Red Commentary Comvers Trudung Crugs Traishing Traishing they saw thousands of military police men heavily armed in camouflage, who threw explosives at the police drones.

“Drones dropping bombs are now a practice used by highly armed criminal groups,” Carlos Solar of the Royal United Services Institute told BBC News.

Rafael Soares, a journalist who covers crime in Rio, told BBC News Brasil last week that the red command had been removed from Rio in recent years, returning the field it had lost to its rivals, the first money order.

Police footage released to local media shows members of the militant group, massed in a wooded area where they clashed with the Elite Security Force, and where many bodies were found the next day. BBC News has confirmed several videos showing that many bodies have been removed from the Rio market, in its North Penha district.

The war exposed Rio de Janeiro’s Security Deployment Offense and differences in how to deal with it.

While rights activists have condemned the offensive scenes of corpses being placed in the street, research shows many citizens tired of crime supported the operation.

Felipe Curi, the head of the Rio Favol Force, told reporters on Wednesday that the police had found 99 bodies, “42 of them in the steps of extensive records.

Amidst criticism that his administration is too committed to crime, Lula said on X Friday that he sent a bill to Parliament proposing a 30-year prison sentence for members of the prison.

A photographer who saw the results of the operation told the BBC how residents are returning with the dead bodies of those who died.

The bodies ”were kept coming: 25, 30, 35, 40, 45,” Bruno Itan told BBC Brasil. He said the bodies included those of the police.

One of those bodies was banned – the others were “totally demolished,” Tan said. Many also had what he said and the wounds were hurt.