They used axes, machine guns and pistols to dislodge an underground party in São Paulo: “It was Sodom and Gomorrah”

San Pablo police disperse underground party

The police dissolved a illegal party with nearly 600 people in a windowless nightclub of St.Paul in the wee hours of Saturday. The event generated unrest due to the deployment of police with long guns used to evacuate the scene. The celebration took place amid the record epidemic that lives Brazil.

As authorities tighten restrictions on the number of cases and deaths which continue to rise, thousands are defying authorities and the virus, at parties or clandestine meetings.

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In the early hours of Saturday, the police arrived at this nightclub, where 600 people were participating in a party. Officers carried long guns with telescoping sights to begin dislodging assistants. Despite the dramatic scenario that Brazil is going through, many continue to meet and come together.

“Today was a situation we could never have imagined. There were hundreds and hundreds of people in a place without a single window, with all the doors closed. It was Sodom and Gomorrah, ”said the officer in charge of the police operation.

With an ax, the police broke down the doors of the disco in the Capao Redondo district of São Paulo and entered with machine guns and rifles from commando groups.

Witnesses said hundreds of young people taking part in the party fell back in fear on the dance floor as police silenced the music and arrested the organizers.

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One of the participants, leaving, said: “We pay taxes and we know the risks, we can get sick or infect our families. But we have to do something in life. “

Police said “this operation is about public and social health, more than a police operation. We are here to disperse the crowd. It was very positive and certainly many lives have been saved today ”.

In Brazil, according to official data, the COVID-19 has killed 12,000 people in the last week alone, more than any other country. With 275,000 lives lost in total, the death toll in the country is just behind the United States, where the epidemic is slowing.

Lula has been vaccinated against the coronavirus

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received the coronavirus vaccine over the weekend and called on Brazilians to enforce en masse, to fight not only the pandemic, but also “the ignorance of deniers “in reference to the current head of state of the country, Jair Bolsonaro.

“I am happy and I hope that the vaccine gives the result that I dream of and that people dream of. All people want is to receive a vaccine that frees them from this monster called coronavirus and that is why the President of the Republic must stop being ignorant; learn to respect people’s feelings and guarantee the vaccine to everyone, ”Lula said through her social media after being vaccinated.

The 75-year-old former president, who returned to the political arena this week after the Supreme Court overturned corruption convictions, defended vaccination and called on the government to step up efforts to immunize the entire population and speed up the process.