Overview
- State forces deployed more than 2,500 officers in the Alemão and Penha complexes under Operation Containment targeting the Comando Vermelho.
- Authorities cited between 81 and 113 arrests alongside seizures of roughly 100 rifles and over half a ton of drugs.
- Residents reported recovering dozens of bodies from wooded areas, four police officers were killed, and lawyers alleged execution-style killings.
- Comando Vermelho fighters used drones to drop explosives, assault rifles, and torched buses to blockade roads, forcing school closures, halted health services, and flight disruptions at Galeão.
- Federal ministers moved to Rio as the U.N. and rights groups called for independent investigations, while alleged leader Edgar ‘Doca da Penha’ remained at large.