About 74% of public schools in Rio de Janeiro were hit at least once in 2019 by gunfire, incidents in which the vast majority of cases involved police, reveals a report on the impact of the so-called war on drugs in public education publicity yesterday Monday.
The Magnificent City, the postcard of Brazilian tourism, is also the scene of incessant clashes between rival drug-trafficking gangs, or between criminals and law enforcement, primarily in favelas, slums where more than two million people live.
The exchanges of fire have many victims, terrorize the population and cause problems in the operation of schools, where panic scenes, with teachers and students rushing to fall because they are afraid of being hit by stray bullets, are common.
The report, by the Center for the Study of Security and Active Citizen Participation (CESEC), is based on data from the Fogo Cruzado (Crossfire) platform, which counted a total of 4,346 violent shootings using firearms in the R in 2019, many after police interventions.
“Thanks to the data of the platform, it was possible to identify that 1,154 schools of the public education system in the city (74%) were hit at least once by an exchange of fire”, the report emphasizes, which deals with the last year of smooth operation of the education system. before the new coronavirus pandemic broke out.
About 57% of schools were hit by at least 10 gun violence in 2019; 11% experienced more than 30 such incidents.
Violent incidents often lead to the temporary closure of schools, with a severe impact on children’s school performance. According to the report, at least 295 schools in Rio were forced to close for at least one day in 2019.
“Presence of armored vehicles near the school, intense fire, bomb blasts”: you do not mean exactly “normal operating conditions”, he said in his statements included in the text of a school principal in northern Rio de Janeiro after an exchange of fire in March 2019.
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