Brazilian President Lula da Silva today sent a resounding message about the fight against organized crime, calling for concerted action to protect the safety of police officers and citizens in the wake of a deadly police operation in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas.
“We cannot accept that organized crime will continue to destroy families, oppress residents, promote drugs and violence in the cities”Lula said in a post on the X platform.
“Coordinated action is needed to target the backbone of drug trafficking, without putting police officers, children and innocent families at risk”emphasized the president of Brazil.
The deadliest police operation in Brazilian history resulted killing at least 132 peoplewas made known by officials yesterday Wednesday, after its residents Rio de Janeiro they placed on a street dozens of corpses they had collected during the previous night.
The tally from Rio’s public defender’s office is more than double the death toll released on Tuesday, when state authorities said at least 64 had died, including four police officers. The raids targeted a major drug-trafficking gang, said the state government.
Source :Skai
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