Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police on early Thursday morning updated the official death toll of Tuesday’s massive police raid against the deadly Comando Vermelho (“Red Command”) drug-trafficking gang from an initial 64 to 121.
On Tuesday, some 2,500 officials from Rio’s civil and military police conducted “Operation Containment,” a massive security operation in northern Rio’s Complexo do Alemão and Penha favelas against Red Command, one of the largest and most dangerous drug trafficking gangs in Brazil. The operation, now considered the most lethal in the country’s history, saw law enforcement officials execute hundreds of arrest warrants and search and seizure warrants against Red Command and its territorial expansion plans in the two northern favelas.
The operation was the end result of a year-long investigation against the criminal organization and authorized by Rio governor Cláudio Castro, a member of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL).
Red Command responded to the security operation by engaging in violent armed clashes with police officers, placing several burning barricades, and even using drones to laun
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