2017 Brazil prison riots
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It has been suggested that Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo riot be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2017. |
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This article is incomplete. (January 2017) |
| 2017 Brazil prison riots | |
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| Date | 1, 8, 24 January 2017 |
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Attack type
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Prison riot, beheading, hostage taking |
| Deaths | 140+ |
| Assailants | Familia do Norte and Primeiro Comando da Capital gang members |
The conflict between the Primeiro Comando da Capital e o Comando Vermelho is a confrontation between two criminal organizations, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV), and their allies within prisons and peripheries of Brazilian cities. Its emergence is linked to the methods of the CCP to conquer new territories for drug trafficking, which involve the collection of insurance and economic centralization and whose rigid pseudo-state organization finds strong resistance from regional criminal organizations, with predominantly decentralized organization.[1]
Riots[edit]
The confrontation has taken the form of prison rebellions culminating in massacres. At the end of 2016, the first rebellion took place in Roraima with dead detainees. On January 1, 2017, 56 prisoners were killed after a riot at the Anísio Jobim (Compaj) Penitentiary Complex in Manaus, Amazonas, in the northern region of the country. Members of two rival gangs of drug trafficking, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and the Família do Norte (NDF) - allied to the Comando Vermelho (CV) - clashed in what was considered the most violent massacre in the history of the system Brazilian prison since the slaughter of Carandiru (1992).[2][3]
Five days later, 33 prisoners were killed in the Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo riot, located in the rural area of Boa Vista, Roraima, also in the North. According to Folha de S.Paulo, the massacre in Roraima was a response of the PCC to the rebellion commanded by the FDN in the Amazon.[4] Even more people were killed later on in the month.[5]
See also[edit]
- Agricultural Penitentiary of Monte Cristo riot, similar prison riot that occurred in Brazil the previous year
References[edit]
- ^ "Inmates beheaded in Brazil jail riot, 60 killed". Agence France-Presse via Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ McKirdy, Euan. "At least 56 killed in Brazil prison riot over drug turf, officials say". CNN. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Cowie, Sam. "56 killed, many beheaded, in grisly Brazil prison riot". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/brazil-prisons-gang-violence-riots
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/15/brazil-prison-riot-alcacuz-drug-gang
