Dirty war in Brazil: police killed 132 people during a raid (video)

The Prince of Wales, 43, is due to travel to Rio de Janeiro to present his Earthshot environmental prize, a £1m award for environmental innovation. However, after "unprecedented bloodshed" in which 2,500 police and soldiers stormed the favelas of Peña and Complexo de Alemao on Tuesday, security measures are being stepped up. "All eyes will be on Rio while William is there and there are serious fears that violence will flare up again during his stay in Brazil," a Rio police source said.

The number of arrested suspects reached 113, 81 more than previously reported. The state government said about 90 rifles and more than a ton of drugs were seized. Police and soldiers conducted an operation using helicopters, armored vehicles and on foot, chasing the Red Commander gang. They provoked arson and other related actions by gang members, causing chaos across the city on October 28.

Schools in the affected areas were closed, classes at the local university were canceled and roads were blocked by buses used as barricades. On the morning of October 29, many shops remained closed in Peña, where local activist Raul Santiago said he was part of a group that discovered about 15 bodies before dawn. "We saw executions: shots in the back, shots in the head, stab wounds, people tied up.

This level of brutality, this hatred that thrives, you can't call it anything but carnage," Santiago said, noting that one Peña teenager was beheaded by police. Rio state governor Claudio Castro said Tuesday he is waging a war on "narco-terrorism," a term that echoes the Trump administration's campaign to crack down on drug trafficking in Latin America. On Wednesday, Castro called the operation "successful" except for the deaths of four policemen.

The Rio state government said all the suspects killed had resisted police. However, the scale and lethality of Tuesday's operation are unprecedented. Non-governmental organizations and the UN human rights body immediately expressed concern about the large number of reports of deaths and called for an investigation. At the same time, local activists said that the raids in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro would do nothing.

Filipe dos Anjos, secretary general of the favela rights organization FAFERJ, said: "In about thirty days, organized crime in this area will be reorganizing and doing what it always does: selling drugs, stealing cargo, collecting payments and customs. " "From the point of view of specific results for the population, for society, this kind of operation gives practically nothing," he added.