Moraes Orders Evidence Preserved as Rio Megaoperation Faces Probes and Drives Security Push

Overview

• The Supreme Court’s Alexandre de Moraes mandated rigorous preservation of all materials from the Oct. 28 raid and meets today with Governor Cláudio Castro and Mayor Eduardo Paes, as Congress fast-tracks the Security PEC, hears PF and PRF chiefs, and the Senate prepares to install a crime-organized CPI on Tuesday.
• Rio’s Public Defender said the coroner’s office concluded its work and released the 117 bodies of those labeled suspects, with the official toll at 121 dead overall including four police officers.
• UN human-rights experts called for immediate, independent investigations, citing reports of possible unlawful killings, bodies found with hands bound or shots to the head, home invasions without warrants, arbitrary arrests, and the use of aircraft to fire projectiles.
• A Genial/Quaest poll found 64% approval for the operation statewide, yet 52% of residents say they feel less safe afterward, with broad backing for more raids and stark divides by political alignment.
• Authorities report 113 arrests, the seizure of 91 rifles and over a ton of drugs, and say videos show intense firefights, rescues and surrenders, while top CV target “Doca” remains at large.