Overview
- - Authorities maintain an official death toll of 121, including four police officers, while Rio’s Public Defender reports 132 fatalities and urges independent scrutiny.
- - The hours‑long operation in the Alemão and Penha complexes deployed roughly 2,500 agents and was framed by officials as a fight against “narcoterrorists,” with newly released drone and body‑camera video showing intense firefights.
- - Police report seizing about 120 weapons, including 93 rifles, and estimate a 12.8‑million‑real financial hit to the Comando Vermelho, with 113 people detained.
- - A police dossier says at least 97 of the deceased had significant criminal records and 59 were wanted by court orders, and notes 62 came from other Brazilian states.
- - UN experts called for immediate, independent investigations with witness protections as the operation becomes a political rallying point for Governor Cláudio Castro and allied right‑wing figures ahead of 2026.