Moraes Halts Rio Inquests, Orders Evidence Preserved as Congress Wrangles Over Antifacção Bill

Overview

• Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes suspended Rio Civil Police inquiries into the removal of bodies and required preservation and delivery of body‑cam footage and autopsy reports under the ADPF das Favelas framework.
• The October 28 Operação Contenção in the Complexos do Alemão and da Penha now has an official toll of 121 dead, including four police officers, after residents recovered bodies from a forested area.
• Chamber president Hugo Motta met with Moraes, Prosecutor‑General Paulo Gonet and state prosecutors, then with the Federal Police director‑general, and called for institutional unity before a planned vote this week.
• Relator Guilherme Derrite issued a revised substitute stating the Federal Police may act by initiative with notice to state authorities, a change the government and PF still consider insufficient to safeguard the agency’s role.
• Security officials warned the report narrows tools against smaller groups, weakens asset forfeiture and applies terrorism‑equivalent penalties to faction practices, while Derrite denies creating a terrorism label for criminal organizations.