{"id":83160,"date":"2026-04-10T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=83160"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:05:52","slug":"theres-blood-in-the-palmeiras-favela-the-cry-for-help-police-chose-not-to-hear-in-sao-goncalos-salgueiro-favela-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=83160","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Blood in the Palmeiras Favela: The Cry for Help Police Chose Not to Hear in S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo’s Salgueiro Favela Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andressa Nogueira do Nascimento, a resident of Complexo do Salgueiro and a mother of five, was executed with a shot to the head in front of one of her children during a police operation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Palmeiras community, in Complexo do Salgueiro<\/a>, a cluster of favelas in the Greater Rio municipality of S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo<\/a>, became the scene of a crime<\/a> that exposes the brutal face of Rio de Janeiro state public security policy. On Friday, March 27, amid a water shortage in the favela, Andressa Nogueira do Nascimento was executed after leaving her home with one of her children to buy water for her family. The afternoon was marked by the deafening silence of authorities in the face of the loss of life. What followed her death was a spectacle of state omission and abandonment, bordering on sadism.<\/p>\n

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Residents mourn in the streets of Complexo do Salgueiro during a demonstration calling for justice for Andressa do Nascimento, killed during a police operation. Photo: Por Gentileza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nascimento\u2019s death did not occur \u201cin the heat of a confrontation.\u201d It was the result of a disastrous and lethal action by the agents present, during a moment of apparent calm. A resident who preferred to remain anonymous described with precision the trail of blood left by the police incursion:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe operation started at around five in the morning. It was intense. Shootouts all day long. At around three in the afternoon Andressa thought that it had ended, because she no longer heard gunshots or saw anything. Since water access is difficult over there, she went out to buy water because there was none left for the children to drink. Just as she was returning, a car from that police force [Federal Highway Police, PRF by its Portuguese acronym] stopped on the highway near the corner of her house. They saw her walking hand in hand with two children. As she approached a small grocery store, they started shooting. A shot hit her. She fell and stayed there, in front of one of her children, for hours and hours.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A resident holds a sign reading, “The state is only doing its ‘job,’ killing innocent people. Salgueiro calls for peace.” Photo: P0r Gentileza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The War Machine and Political Fear: Omission and Contempt<\/h3>\n

Help was nearby. While Nascimento lay on the ground in the favela, still alive, what followed was the deliberate refusal by police officers to provide assistance. Videos recorded at the scene show PRF agents ignoring her family’s desperate pleas. Even with an ambulance parked a few meters away, at the Viaduto da Central<\/a>, not a single agent lifted a finger to call for rescue. \u201cThey simply did not call for help. They withheld aid,\u201d stated one of the voices following the case. The neglect led to the Salgueiro resident\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

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When the officers were confronted by Nascimento\u2019s husband about their failure to assist his wife, the federal agents ordered the residents themselves to remove the body, now lifeless. Such an order, however, ignores basic protocols that must be followed in homicide cases, such as preserving the crime scene to ensure forensic investigators can gather solid evidence. Faced with the residents\u2019 refusal to disturb the body and the scene, in part to prevent evidence from being destroyed or lost, the agents simply got into their vehicle and abandoned the location, leaving Nascimento lying on the ground.<\/p>\n

It was the family itself that, in the midst of despair and under the gaze of traumatized children, had to arrange a private vehicle to remove Nascimento from the area.<\/p>\n

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Um post compartilhado por Alex Serpa (@alexserpapsol)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n