Brazil: Shock of police violence – Fears of torture and “summary proceedings”

Series serious incidents of police violence shake her Brazil in recent days and are suspected of “torture” and “executions by summary proceedings»During business in a favela while one A man died of suffocation as police locked him in the trunk of a patrol car.

«We saw a corpse whose face was covered with a white powder that looked like cocaine. “ said Rodrigo Montego, head of the human rights committee of the Rio de Janeiro Bar Association after a police operation in the favela Villa Cruzeiro on Tuesday, during which more than 20 people were killed.

«Those who killed the man threw cocaine in his face and may have forced him to eat it. This is torture“, He added, while eyewitnesses stated that other people were shot by contact.

According to the latest report of the health authorities, cited by the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency26 people were killed in the police raid, among them a 41-year-old woman from a stray bullet.

But Rio police, who claim to have been targeted by fire at Villa Coryzeiro, revised their death toll to 23 on Thursday, saying the other three bodies came from another favela, 5km away, where clashes broke out between drug traffickers.

Montego went to Villa Cruzeiro on Tuesday while the police operation was still going on, at the request of the representatives of a favela union.

“They were killed in the forests”

“It simply came to our notice then large number of executions with summary procedures. Eyewitnesses told us that men who surrendered to police were killed in the woods” pointed out.

According to him, the report of the police operation alone strengthens the suspicions of extrajudicial executions: “if we look at the statistics around the world, we will never find an incident in which more than 20 people are killed.”

The federal prosecutor’s office launched a third investigation into “possible human rights violations” by police at the Villa Cruzeiro favela.

Moreover Brazil’s public was shocked by the death of a man who was strangled by police in the trunk of a patrol car.

The video of the incident taken by an eyewitness has made the rounds of the world through the internet.

The Federal Highway Police (PRF) said today that its men “used restraint techniques and low-risk tools” against “aggressive” Gennivaldo de Jesούςs Santos, 38, as part of a routine traffic control.

The events unfolded on Wednesday on a street near Ubauba, a city of 25,000 in the state of Sergipe.

Shock from the video in which police trap a man in the trunk of a patrol car

The footage from the video shows two PRF men wearing helmets, nThey are trying to lock a man in the trunk, whose legs are hanging from the outside. Dense white smoke, which seems to be emitted by a smoker, comes out of the trunk.

Screams of pain are also heard and someone shouts: “They will kill him”.

The man’s legs shake for about a minute and then stop. The police fold them and close the trunk.

In an announcement Human Rights Watch expressed his “indignation”.

Brazilian police charged with most murders worldwide: in 2021 more than 6,100 people lost their lives in police operations and 183 police officers were killed, according to figures monitoring the violence.

Many MPs and organizations characterized “Slaughter” the police operation on Tuesday at favela. It is the second deadliest in the history of Rio.

The sad record is held by a police operation that took place last year in the Zakarezino favela, in which 28 people were killed, including a police officer.

On Tuesday night, Brazilian President Zaich Bolsonaro congratulated the “warriors” of the security forces who “neutralized at least 20 marginalized people involved in drug trafficking.”