Violence in Rio de Janeiro

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A week or so ago a small war started on Ilha Gouvernador when the Commando Vermelho tried to take over some favelas on the island and were opposed by the police.

Last week a 6 year old boy, João Hélio Fernandes, was killed in a car-jacking incident - five teenagers have now been arrested. The case was horrible - I have resisted learning all of the details. Rosa Cristina Fernandes, Elson Lopes Vieites, Aline.


The article below caught my attention this morning. I can easily imagine this guy heading home after work, maybe his wife and kids were waiting for him I don't know. He never made it home.

This is not another Canadian hand-wringing exercise, nor it it any kind of attempt to put the violence here into perspective - just something that touched me.

Policial federal é morto com nove tiros no Rio		Federal Police Officer is dead with nine shots in Rio
Uma tentativa de roubo de carro na saída da Linha Amarela, na zona norte do Rio de Janeiro, terminou com a morte de um policial federal lotado na Delegacia do Aeroporto Internacional Tom Jobim, neste sábado. O escrivão Ronei Candido Rezende, 32 anos, foi executado com nove tiros e teve parte do corpo queimado pelos bandidos.		On Saturday, an attempted robbery of a car at the end of the Yellow Line in the North End of Rio de Janeiro, ended with the death of a Federal Police Officer assigned to the Tom Jobim International Airport group. The officer, Ronei Candido Rezende, 32 years old, was executed with nine shots and had part of his body burned by the bandits.
De acordo com a polícia, Ronei saiu por volta das 17h30 do aeroporto com destino a sua casa, no Méier. Na descida da Linha Amarela, ele foi rendido por marginais que tentaram roubar seu carro, um Vectra de quatro portas.		According to the police, Ronei left work at the airport at 5:30 PM and was going to his house in Méier. At the end of the Yellow Line he was overcome by bandits who tried to steal his car, a four-door Vectra.
Ao descobrirem que a vítima era policial, os bandidos o executaram com nove tiros e o colocaram no porta malas do veículo.		On discovering that the victim was with the police, the bandits executed him with nine shots and put him into the trunk of the car.
Os criminosos abandonaram o carro na Rua Iriri, em Cavalcanti, e tentaram incendiá-lo. O caso foi registrado na 29ªDP (Madureira).		The criminals abandoned the car on Iriri Street in Cavalcanti and tried to burn it. The case was registered by the 29th Detachment in Madrueira.

Tuesday February 20 2007

17/2/07, Bruno Menezes, Morte de federal foi filmada, (Archive).

16/02/07, Carlos Brito, PF prende suspeito da morte de colega, (Archive).

No pictures of the victim, but one of the suspects: Carlos Henrique Martins Gonçalves, de 21 anos, conhecido como Peixe, no Morro Engenho da Rainha, onde seria gerente do tráfico de drogas.

Tags: João Hélio Fernandes, Ronei Candido Rezende.
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