Moraes Presses Rio Over Deadly Raid as Congress Accelerates Oversight

Overview

• Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes ordered rigorous preservation and documentation of all material from Operação Contenção and met in Rio with Governor Cláudio Castro and security chiefs, with a civil-society hearing set for November 5 under the ADPF das Favelas framework.
• In Brasília, the Chamber hears the federal police and highway police directors today on the Public Security PEC, the Senate installs a CPI on organized crime on November 4, and the PEC's rapporteur plans to deliver a report by December 4.
• UN experts urged an immediate, independent investigation, citing reports of bodies found with hands bound, shots to the nape, warrantless home entries, and projectile use from helicopters and drones, and called for protection of witnesses and families.
• Official figures report 121 dead, including four police officers, roughly 113 arrests, and major seizures estimated to cost the Comando Vermelho millions, with police saying 93 rifles were among about 120 weapons; the top target known as Doca was not found, though Belão was arrested.
• Polling by Genial/Quaest shows 64% approval of the operation, 52% feeling less safe afterward, 73% favoring more actions of this type, and a near-even split on whether police should try to arrest or shoot when confronting a suspect carrying a rifle.