{"id":7737,"date":"2013-03-20T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:07:07","slug":"fearful-rios-neighboring-municipalities-want-upps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=7737","title":{"rendered":"Fearful, Rio’s Neighboring Municipalities Want UPPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the original report in O Dia in Portuguese click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The migration of criminals from the pacified favelas to the suburbs of the Baixada Fluminense (Rio’s Greater Metropolitan Region) has caused local authorities to be on their guard.<\/p>\n

The mayor of Duque de Caxias, Alexandre Cardoso, announced that he will propose a plan to the state government for them to help bear some of the police expenses. This would be done in order to accelerate the installation of a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP)<\/a> for the first district, which is made up of 40 neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaxias is prepared to bear part of the cost of some 500 police officers,\u201d affirms the Mayor. According to him, the violence in the region has increased after the fleeing of criminals from the Comando Vermelho drug faction<\/a> who were expelled from Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a>. The faction dominates 80% of the communities.<\/p>\n

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Criminals graffiti message on wall in the Caju favela where they impose the “law of the traffic”: “Whoever doubts will die… Crime goes and comes.” Photo by Alexandre Vieira \/ Ag\u00eancia O Dia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even with the municipalities’ efforts to guarantee a UPP, the security specialist, ex-Bope official and sociologist Paulo Storani, believes that the Secretary of Security does not have the resources to expand the project to the entire Metropolitan Area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Baixada population will be forced to learn how to live with the criminals fleeing from pacified areas,\u201d he warns.<\/p>\n

This problem has already become part of the daily routine for residents living in the Beira-Mar favela,\u00a0on the edge of the Washington Luiz highway. There, drug traffickers have repressed the population by setting up barricades to the main entrances of the favela.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, there was a Military Police car parked at the corner of the highway, but now we don\u2019t even have that. The criminals walk around freely, without having to worry about anything,\u201d states one woman.<\/p>\n

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Criminal Migration. In green are locations the drug traffickers are fleeing from; in red are locations drug traffickers are fleeing to. Graphic by O Dia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The occupation of the Complexo do Caju and Barreira do Vasco<\/a>, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday March 3rd, has increased the level of fear among residents living in the risk areas of the Baixada.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrug trafficking is taking over this region,\u201d affirms a resident who did not want to identify himself. According to him, each favela that is occupied in Rio by a UPP increases the lack of security for this region. \u201cDrug traffickers are coming to this area and to the favelas like Manguerinha (Caxias),\u201d he states.<\/p>\n

Criminals leave a message<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the occupations of Complexo do Caju and Barreira do Vasco, residents are still scared that the drug traffickers will return and remain silent. After leaving the favelas, the criminals shot at all the lamp posts on the Rua Manoel Jos\u00e9 Rodrigues and left messages that they would return.<\/p>\n

At the Pra\u00e7a do Futuro in the Boa Esperan\u00e7a community, one visible message intimidates the population: \u201cThe law of drug trafficking continues. Whoever doubts this will die. Have eyes but don’t see, have ears but don’t listen, have a mouth but don’t speak.” The message is from Angolano, identified as one of the leaders of the drug gang in Caju.<\/p>\n

In response, the Municipal Secretary of Conservation, Marcus Belchior, said that \u201cservicing the communities\u201d is the starting point for a new era. \u201cWe have collected 40 tons of trash, reestablished 350 lamp-posts, and unclogged 104 sewers and drains.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Light reconnected: lamp-posts had been broken to make the occupation difficult. Photo by Alexandre Vieira \/ Ag\u00eancia O Dia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Police accused of invading houses<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four military police and one civil police officer are under investigation, accused of breaking and entering, without authorization, the house of a resident from the neighborhood of Barreira do Vasco, in S\u00e3o Cristov\u00e3o.<\/p>\n

The irregular incident occurred during the afternoon on Sunday, a few hours after the police invasion. The person who witnessed the act stated that the group invaded a kitchenette on Rua Professor \u00c1tila, close to gate number 6 of S\u00e3o Janu\u00e1rio, after breaking and entering.<\/p>\n

After turning the apartment upside down, the police were recognized and denounced by other members of the squad. Forensic evidence testing was carried out and all the tests were sent to the 17th Police Station (S\u00e3o Cristov\u00e3o).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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