Police officers escort an alleged criminal arrested during Operation Containment at the Vila Cruzeiro favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 28th. Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images
The governor of Rio de Janeiro has touted the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history as a success, but none of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid.
Only five of those named in the criminal complaint were arrested that day and none were senior leaders of the notorious Comando Vermelho gang, according to a review of the full police report on the operation shared with the Brazilian supreme court.
The raid, known as Operation Containment, left 121 people dead
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