Tensions are mounting in the Brazilian state of Ceara (northeast), where the military police mutinied for better wages. He recorded fifty-one murders in two days, the Brasil official news agency reported on Friday February 21.
These killings took place between 6 a.m. (10 a.m. in Paris) Wednesday and 6 a.m. on Friday, almost five times more than the average of six murders per day, recorded in this state since the beginning of the year, according to Agencia Brasil , citing the state security secretariat.
In response, President Jair Bolsonaro’s government decided to send military forces and the National Guard to strengthen security in Ceara on Friday. "It is something serious. If we are in a state of urban warfare, then we have to send people to solve this problem ”said Mr. Bolsonaro.
Over 300 military police are under investigation
Military police have decided to mutinate themselves this week after negotiations over wage increases broke down. According to local media reports, at least ten battalions of this military police, out of the 43 that count the State, were invested by armed and masked police officers, where thefts of police cars and destruction of installations were also listed. .
On Wednesday, center-left senator Cid Gomes was wounded by gunshots after he tried, at the controls of a backhoe, to break up a picket line by mutinous police officers in Sobral, a town 230 km from Fortaleza, the capital of this city. State. The state of health of this former minister of education in the government of Dilma Rousseff (president from 2011 to 2016) is stable, according to medical sources.
More than 300 military police are under investigation or disciplined for their alleged involvement in acts of paralysis or vandalism, media reports said. Brazilian justice, at the request of the prosecutor, had prohibited the police on Monday any act of paralysis.
With a population of around 8.8 million, the state of Cerea was paralyzed a year ago by more than 200 attacks by criminal factions, unhappy with the tightening of conditions of detention in the prisons of the 'State.
