Brazil: Four prisoners surviving the prison massacre were killed during the transfer

Four prisoners were killed during their transfer from
the prison where 58 other prisoners were mbadacred in Altamira, in the state of Pará, north of the Amazon in Brazil, aboard a prison vehicle, announced today the authorities.

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62 dead in gang war that controls prisons and drug trafficking in the Amazon region, a key point for the transfer of cocaine from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia to the Brazilian ports of the Atlantic.

"These are problems that occur," said President Jair Bolsonaro. about these four deaths, after which he claimed to be in favor of the agrarian penitentiaries forced labor "at the example of the United States", banned in Brazil.

The horror of the mbadacre committed last Monday at the Altamira rehabilitation center continued with the transfer of prisoners determined by the authorities to put an end to clashes between criminal gangs.

In a cage truck where 30 prisoners were transferred, four of them were killed by asphyxiation while heading to the town of Marabá, 600 km away, the press office reported. Governor Helder Barbalho.

According to the authorities, Monday's mutiny was motivated by a fight between the Comando Clbad A (CCA) and Comando Vermelho (CV, Comando Rojo) criminal gangs, which are fighting to recruit prisoners into their ranks and control drug trafficking. and weapons

Prison authorities reported Tuesday night that they had found another body, including 58 dead in the prison.

The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, announced the dispatch of federal troops to allow aid in the penitentiary system of the state of Pará, located in the north of the country. Amazon and considered as part of the route taken for drug trafficking in Europe. produced in the Andean neighbors.

In the state of central Goiania, where he participated in an official act, Bolsonaro said his idea was to install a system of forced labor, which is currently prohibited by the Constitution.

"I dream of an agricultural prison, it is a stone clause (of the Constitution) but I would like forced labor for this kind of people in Brazil.Nobody wants to mistreat prisoners or be killed, but it's their habitat. "

Of the 62 dead,
16 were beheaded in a pavilion invaded by the bosses of Command Clbad A, one of the gangs fighting over traffic in the area.

The two most important in Brazil are the Commando Vermelho, which dominates part of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro since the 1980s and which has its maximum leader, Fernandinho Beira Mar, and the first commander-in-chief (PCC), a group of Paulista with marijuana control in northern Paraguay, whose chief is also imprisoned, Marcos Willian Camacho, aka "Marcola".

Altamira is one of the ten most violent cities in Brazil: the region of southwestern Pará is known as the "far west" of Brazil for land disputes.

Since 2011, the region has made a demographic leap with the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingú River, the third largest plant in the world behind the Chinese Three Gorges and the Brazilian Paraguayan binational Itaipu.

Erwin Krautler, Bishop Emeritus of Xingu, 80 years old and resident in Altamira since 1965, badped Bolsonaro for telling him that one had to ask what the alleged victims of the murders had to say.

"This is not an answer that a president must give families, every inmate has a mother, a father, mothers cry," said the area's Catholic chief at Folha newspaper in Sao Paulo.

According to Krautler, born in Austria, Bolsonaro's speech "is disturbing because the idea of ​​a good bandit settled is dead," claiming that in general, society has lost the sensitivity to these episodes.

"It looks like you are walking on a dead badroach, a lot of people are getting used to it and it ends up being no news anymore," he said.

The bishop was a strong opponent of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station under the Dilma Rousseff government and that of Transamazone during the military dictatorship due to the social chaos and disorderly growth generated by both projects.

"Altamira has become a scene of aggression," he said.

Telam Agency

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