Moises Santana Gómez issued a statement to Rio de Janeiro’s Public Ministry saying they were investigating whether the operation went too far.
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Delegate Moises Santana Gómez detailed a large-scale operation in the Peña and Alemão complexes that left 121 people dead, and reported the presence of more than 70 armed drug dealers in front of the home of Comando Vermelho leader Doca, who remains on the run. Lawmakers said there were signs of irregularities in the number of deaths recorded.
Deputy Moises Santana Gómez, chief of the Drug Enforcement Police Department (DRE) and responsible for the large-scale operation in the Peña and Alemán complexes in which 121 people were killed, provided details about the plans for the police action in a statement to Rio de Janeiro’s Public Ministry. A transcript of the remarks was included in a report sent by the MPs to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) last Wednesday.
According to Gómez, civilian police drones captured more than 70 drug traffickers in front of the house of Edgar Alves de Andrade. dockOne of the main leaders of Commando Vermelho (CV).
“Doka is a trafficker facing the police, so we were prepared to meet a lot of resistance and knew that there would be difficulties, but that’s what happened. Until the police raid began, we were watching from the air, so we knew that at the start of the operation there was a large group of drug traffickers stationed in front of Doka’s house,” the representative said.
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He added that the operational file includes photos of CV readers inside the house and of men armed with rifles and dressed in black standing guard. Despite all efforts and information from aerial surveillance, Doca remains at large.
Still, Gomez said the October 28 operation had been planned for months but was postponed after drug traffickers allegedly erected a wall near the entrance to Complex do Alemão on Calle Fazendinha. Still, the police chief believes that there was no information leak, but rather that the traffickers noticed the police’s movements and carried out the operation.
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“An operation of this size ends up involving a very large movement. BOPE had to move over 15 armored vehicles from other battalions to the COE,” he said. Gómez added that a move of this scale would only mean operations in the Peña, Alemán or Salgueiro complexes.
“It’s because of the violence scenarios and the preparation of these locations. That kind of barricade structure, the containment, the number of rifles that we detected both in the investigation and due diligence.
“For example, the resistance found in Complexo da Peña will only be found in Complexo do Alemão and Complexo do Salgueiro,” he said.
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MP report
The prosecutor’s office’s letter sent to the STF includes 367 pages of copies of police statements, records of operational orders, and the prosecutor’s report on the large-scale operation. Regarding the latter, there is a description of cases of “atypical trauma” among the 121 deaths.
The agency cited cases in which the wounds were “not consistent with others,” and in one case, the body showed signs of being shot at close range.
The other had signs of decapitation “with a sharp or blunt object” and injuries from a firearm fired from a distance. Therefore, authorities classified these incidents as “unforeseen circumstances of police conflict that occurred.” The names of the dead have not been released.
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