President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva commented, this Tuesday (4), on Operation Containment, carried out on October 28, in Rio de Janeiro. For the president, the operation was “disastrous”.
“The concrete fact is that the operation, from the point of view of the number of deaths, people can consider it a success, but from the point of view of the State’s action, I think it was disastrous”, said the president in an interview with international news agencies.
According to the Reuters news agency, the president said his administration will push for an independent investigation. “It is important to see under what conditions it happened,” said Lula. “The judge’s order was an arrest order, not a killing order, and there was a killing,” he added.
Operation Containment involved 2,500 police officers from various units in Rio de Janeiro to attack strategic points belonging to the Comando Vermelho faction in neighborhoods in the Alemão and Penha complexes, in the north of Rio de Janeiro. The action involved intense shooting and saw the deaths of 121 people, four of them police officers.
Residents report that Dozens of bodies were found in the woodsmany of them with signs of surrender, like hands and legs tiedand execution and torture. The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Cláudio Castro, supports the version that all the men who surrendered were arrested, in addition to stating that the operation “was a success”. This was the deadliest police operation in the state’s history.
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The United Nations (UN) had already expressed support for an independent investigation to “guarantee accountability for the facts, stop human rights violations and ensure protection for witnesses, victims’ families and human rights defenders”.
COP30
Lula spoke to journalists in Belém, where the Climate Summit will take place on the 6th and 7th, which will bring together dozens of heads of state. From the 10th, the capital of Pará will host the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30).
*With information from Reuters Agency
