Amnesty calls for an immediate investigation into the MP and the civilian police on the deaths of Prime Minister Fallet

Hours after the military police intervened in the communities of Santa Teresa and Catumbi, in the central region of the city, which killed 13 people in Fallet last Friday, Amnesty International published on its official website a note requesting that the police and the public prosecutor's office of Rio de Janeiro (MP-RJ) promptly investigate the action of the police.

The organization requests "an immediate, detailed, impartial and independent inquiry" on both bodies to determine the "exact circumstances of each of these deaths". The note also states that in 2018, the number of cases of people killed by police registered increased.

A military police operation in the communities of Fallet-Fogueteiro (Rio de Janeiro) today, February 8, 2019, caused the death of 13 people, who were allegedly shot dead then that they were entering the region and that resulted from a clash. An immediate, detailed, impartial and independent inquiry made it possible to determine the exact circumstances of each of these deaths. Thus, the civil police and the public prosecutor's office have the constitutional mission to exert an external control on the activity of the police, on the deaths resulting from the intervention of the police . "

The Homicide Bureau (DH / Capital) has already made expertise in the house where the death occurred. S would have occurred and investigation of the case.