[lit-ideas] Sao Paulo Criminal Terror
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:10:09 -0400
In case anyone has missed this, the Brazilian state and city
of Sao Paulo has been undergoing a major criminal-terrorist
siege the past couple days. Banks were bombed, city buses
destroyed, firefighters and police killed, schools and
highways shut down. The attacks were triggered by the
decision to move a couple hundred major criminals to
facilities where they would have less control over the
ongoing criminal activities in Brazil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4987104.stm
Police backlash lifts Brazil toll
Sao Paulo police have been carrying out frisks and ID checks
The death toll from four days of gang attacks and a police
backlash in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has risen to
115, said police.
They say 33 suspected gang members were shot by police in
the 24 hours until Tuesday lunchtime.
Transport and other services in Sao Paulo have been
restored, but the authorities are carrying out hundreds of
arrests as they pursue the gang.
The wave of violence seems to have been ordered by gang
leaders inside jail.
State authorities have strongly denied local newspaper
reports that they struck a deal with the gang - the First
Command of the Capital (PCC) - to put an end to attacks.
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