Overview
- Operation Contenção deployed about 2,500 officers across the Alemão and Penha complexes a week before COP30, resulting in at least 121 dead and roughly 99–100 arrests.
- The police report to the Supreme Court says none of those killed matched the 69 suspects listed by prosecutors, and only five of those named were detained that day.
- No senior Comando Vermelho figures were captured, and alleged leader Edgar Alves de Andrade, known as Doca, remains at large.
- State authorities defend the raid and claim most of the dead had links to the gang, while residents and rights groups allege executions and torture in areas such as Mata da Pedreira.
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called the operation a massacre and announced a parallel federal investigation that could use Federal Police forensic experts.