PSB Asks Brazil’s Supreme Court to Put Rio Mega-Operation Probes Under Federal Control

Overview

• The petition, filed in ADPF 635 and addressed to Justice Alexandre de Moraes, requests that the Federal Police and the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office lead the inquiries or, failing that, that the PF be formally included under Law 10.446/2002.
• The filing also asks Moraes to order diligences requested by the National Council for Human Rights and argues that local bodies lack the impartiality to investigate state police actions.
• The PSB cites reports of grave abuses during Operation Contenção in the Penha–Alemão complexes, alleging executions and torture, with accounts of head and back wounds, stab marks, bound hands, a decapitation, and bodies taken by residents to Praça São Lucas.
• Coverage reports a death toll of 121 in the mega-operation against the Comando Vermelho, a figure that remains subject to official investigation.
• The request builds on STF safeguards from ADPF 635 that sought to curb police lethality, which the PSB says were breached, and Moraes has yet to rule on federalizing or including federal authorities in the case.