At least 57 dead in a northern prison in Bras …

From Brasilia

Fifty-seven prisoners at least died, including sixteen beheaded, after the rebellion in an Altamira prison in the state of Pará in the north of the country. This is the most violent episode in Brazilian jails so far from the Jair Bolsonaro government: the precedent had occurred in May and had made 55 victims in Manaus, capital of Amazonas.

It all started Monday, around seven in the morning, at the Altamira Recovery Center, in the south of the Amazon archipelago, in the east of the Amazon. This center has become in recent years a Colombian drug corridor for the European market and litigation. between factions.

A cloud of black smoke appeared shortly after inside the Altamira Recovery Center where Clbad A commanders set fire to a container occupied by its Vermelho command rivals, the company said. 39, one of the oldest organizations in the country, formed in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

The attackers left Pavilion A with torches and blades seized in the prison kitchen, according to information provided by the Directorate of the Penitentiary Service of Paense. Two prison guards were held hostage and released.

Dozens of detainees died asphyxiated or burnt in the middle of the inflamed mattresses inside the metal and concrete container, to which experts from the Legal Medical Institute would only enter late in the afternoon because of the high temperature of the material.

A wall surrounds the prison in front of which the detainees' companions met, the same one who had mobilized there two months ago to demand the separation of the gangs in order to prevent the confrontation that finally occurred.

"I only want the list to know if my husband is alive," shouted Ms. Rosángela da Costa to reporters or when an official vehicle approached the prison gate.

The pbadage of ambulances and vans from the forensic institute was permanent. The authorities then announced the shipment of refrigerated trucks to transport the bodies to Belém, the state capital.

Around noon, a video of bad definition circulated, where men celebrated the carnage by kicking at what was apparently the head of their enemies.

From Brasilia, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sergio Moro, avoided speaking to the media to which he issued a bureaucratic statement without announcing a trip to the scene.

In the official note, the National Security Force was alerted and the leaders of the revolt were transferred to other detainees.

The statement did not mention the overcrowding of the prison which, according to the National Council of Justice, housed more than 340 prisoners while it can accommodate only one hundred and forty-three.

The former leader of the Lava Jato case and the current Minister of Jair Bolsonaro is the author of a public security system reform project whose foundations have resulted in an increase in population prison in a country with more than seven hundred thousand inmates, the third in the world. . Seventy percent of these prisons are overcrowded and many of them have overcrowded settings, according to the Justice Council study.

In the night, Amnesty International said the killing reflected "overcrowded" prisons and an "exhausted" security system.

Moro's legislative proposal, inspired by the simplistic concept quoted by Amnesty, is supported by the Bullet Bank, which is composed mainly of police officers and members of other security forces, such as prison officers and police officers. the barely concealed support of paramilitary militias.

Clbad A Command, allegedly responsible for the mbadacre, is an organization that would have the presence, or at least the connivance, of Pará's paramilitarism.

An organization that appeared at the height of the war for the control of prisoners, the trafficking of arms and drugs faced by the national projection mafias, such as the Vermelho command and the first command of the capital, this last appeared in São Paulo in the 90s

The case of Clbad A command has similarities to the Northern Family, the group formed in Manaus, where it measures forces with the first command of São Paulo and the command of Vermelho Carioca.

The family was involved in the Manaus rebellions in May and those in early 2017, as well as in that capital, which began a series of riots in Amazon jails that caused the deaths of one hundred people.