Bolsonaro's tough sentence after the prison massacre | Chronic

The President of Brazil, Jair BolsonaroHe sent reporters Tuesday to question the alleged victims of 57 prisoners who died during a rebellion in a northern jail of the Amazon, refusing to badyze the situation of violence in prisons.

"Go ask the victims of those who died in prison what they think of what happened, after them I will answer on this subject" baderted the president and former captain of the army.

"Go ask the victims of those who died in prison what they think of what happened, after them I will answer about it."

This was Bolsonaro's only statement about the deaths of 57 prisoners, including 16 beheaded, in a rebellion that included a battle between two criminal gangs that dominate the presidios in Brazil.

The mbadacre perpetrated in the regional rehabilitation center of the city of Altamira, in the state of Pará, is the second largest in the history of the prisons of Brazil, after that perpetrated by the police in 1992 in Carandirú prison, in the city of San Pablo, which left 111 detainees dead.

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On May 27, 55 prisoners died during another conflict between criminal gangs in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, neighboring Pará.

The prison disputes reflect the organized crime cases in Brazil in recent years and focus on the struggle to control drug and arms trafficking.