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A series of attacks perpetrated by criminals between the night of Wednesday (2) and the dawn of this farm (3) in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza allowed to burn buses and vans and struck the structure of a viaduct on the road connecting the capital Ceará to Brasilia. . Police investigate to determine whether there is a link between the actions and could be related to the changes announced by the state government for the administration of prisons to the second term of Camilo Santana
The Public Security and Social Defense Secretariat reported that nine people (five adults and four teenagers) were charged with involvement in vehicle fires and damage to public property. A tenth person was also driven to a civilian police station where she was heard and her involvement in the crimes continues to be investigated
In the middle of the night, a loud explosion has scared the people of Caucaia near a viaduct crossing the BR-020, road that connects Fortaleza to major cities of the interior, such as Canindé and Brasilia. Explosives were found on the site and part of the structure was hit. No injuries have been reported.
For safety reasons, the viaduct was blocked in both directions by the federal highway police. Engineers from the DNIT (National Department of Transport Infrastructure) are expected to badess the situation and risks of the structure. The traffic is diverted, which generates many lines of cars on the premises.
In Fortaleza, two buses were set on fire in the neighborhoods of Edson Queiroz and on Conego de Castro Avenue, both located on the outskirts of the city. Roadblocks on at least two avenues and security cameras were also damaged.
Gunshots were fired at the door of a bank branch in the Otavio Bonfim district. And in Damascus, a homemade artifact was launched at a gas station.
In Horizonte, in the metropolitan area, a home-made bomb was thrown into the yard where cars were parked in Demutran (Municipal Traffic Service) burning six municipal vehicles.
19659003] The attacks occur after Camilo Santana announced that one of the priorities of his second term would be to tighten the rules in the prisons, which today account for units divided into criminal factions: the three strongest of the state are the PCC (First Command of the capital) and
Santana created an exclusive secretariat for the subject, that of the prison administration, which was entrusted to a policeman and former secretary of the civilian police. Rio Grande do Norte Justice Luís Mauro Albuquerque. On Tuesday, at the inauguration of the secretaries of the Abolition Palace, Albuquerque said he did not recognize the criminal factions and that the prisons were to be run by the state and not by the criminals. In recent months, videos of detainees with mobile phones in the units have been circulating.
It is also possible to revisit the division of prisoners into prisons according to the faction to which they belong, which may have triggered orders for the actions carried out by thugs during the last hours.
According to data from the Brazilian Security Forum, in 2017 Ceará was the third state in the country where the dead were the most violent. The rate was 59.1 deaths per 100,000 population. At the head of the state were only the Rio Grande do Norte (68) and Acre (63,9).
According to data released by the state, the homicide rate dropped by 10.5% between January and November 2018 compared to 2017. However, last year the mbadacre was been the most important in the history of Ceará, with 14 dead at a party in the suburbs of Fortaleza in January and the death of six hostages as a result of police action to prevent The badault of two banks in Milagres, in the interior of the country, in December
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