Overview
- State authorities report 121 dead, including four police officers, while the public defender’s office cites up to 132; the coroner has identified 99 bodies so far.
- Roughly 2,500 security personnel targeted Comando Vermelho in the Penha and Alemão complexes, with 133 arrests and 93 rifles seized reported by the state.
- The government says most of the identified dead had criminal records and many had outstanding warrants, though local press noted the names were not charged in the probe that supported the raid.
- Residents and rights groups denounce a massacre, with protests demanding Governor Cláudio Castro’s resignation and accounts of bodies recovered from nearby woods showing signs of severe violence.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes set a Nov. 3 hearing with the governor and police chiefs, and the UN human-rights office urged sweeping police reform and independent investigations.