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The border between Brazil and Paraguay in Ponta Porã, in southern Mato Grosso do Sul, has always been marked by executions, shootings, drug trafficking and weapons. The site is one of the main gates of narcotics and heavy weapons in the country.
The violent characteristics of the region have acquired a warlike appearance in recent years with the dispute over the control of the site between criminal factions. June 2016 marks the intensification of this war with the death of Jorge Rafaat, dubbed "the king of the border". G1 gives an overview of this dispute which, in 2018 alone, has claimed 30 lives.
On June 15, 2016, Rafaat was ambushed. Pedro Juan Caballero, a Paraguayan town bordering Brazil and the neighboring Ponta Porã. The dealer was in a van when he was surprised by another vehicle in front of him. At the back, a man fired at Rafaat with a 50-point machine gun, the truck, even armored, did not stand up to the war. Rafaat died instantly. A security camera recorded all the action.
The images show the moment when the trafficker was killed at the border
The images show the moment when the trafficker was killed at the border On the same day, on the Paraguayan side, the seller's tire shop in Ponta Porã caught fire
Another Rafaat company was attacked. His security company was strafed and his windows and doors were destroyed. In the same month, two suspects of the murder of the trafficker were arrested.
In December 2018, one of Rafaat's security guards, Orlando da Silva Fernandes, aged 41, was executed in Campo Grande. The gunshots mainly affected him. Police found at least 40 soft capsules on the scene.
Jarvis Pavão ongoing of extradition to Brazil – Photo: Rede Globo / Reproduction
Jarvis The peabad extradited to Brazil – Photo: Rede Globo / Reproduction
Jarvis even arrested, Jarvis Ximenes Pavão, nicknamed the "lord of drugs ", became, according to the Paraguayan police, one of the suspects of the death of Rafaat and one of the successors of the tra I am in the corner.
Jarvis Pavão had been serving in the neighboring country since 2009 and was also sentenced in Brazil to 17 years in prison for drug trafficking and was appointed by the Ju stice of Brazil as representative, at the border, of a gang of São Paulo that operates inside and outside prisons.
In 2017, according to the Paraguayan and Brazilian police, more than 20 executions were recorded in the border region. One of them was that of Jarvis' s brother, Rony Peabad, who was murdered in March 2017 with 9mm gun shots. According to the surveys, the death was the result of the war for the control of the sale of drugs.
In December 2017, Pavão was extradited to Brazil to spend 17 years and 8 months in the federal prison of Mossoró, in the Rio Grande do Norte, for trafficking and money laundering.
Jarvis's lawyer, Argentina Laura Marcela Casuso, aged 54, was shot and executed in November 2018 at Pedro Juan Caballero. According to the Paraguayan police, a man fired several times at his wife and then escaped in a black pickup truck.
The following month, a new attack. Men armed with AK-47 rifles and machine guns opened fire on the vehicle with four people, including Jarvis's nephew. He was injured and hospitalized.
"The businessman Chico Gimenez, the trafficker's uncle, was murdered in his property in Ponta Porã. He was a candidate for mayor of the municipality in 2016. Chico had been arrested on 7 December 2018 with a Jarvis nephew, at a meeting.
According to the police, Chico was with his wife, or a car knocked down the door of the residence and gunmen came down and shot. Businessman was hit in the shoulder and arm.The woman came out unscathed.
Police suspect the meeting to lead a possible attack on the rival group led by Minotauro. Paraguayan police, Minotauro could be the main cause of the death of the lawyer Laura Casuso e The uncle of Jarvis Pavão
Trafficker Sérgio de Arruda Quintiliano Neto was arrested on Monday (4) in Balneário Camboriú, on the north coast of Santa Catarina . Nicknamed Minotauro, the trafficker is linked to a criminal faction in São Paulo.
Two arrest warrants were pending against him, one of the courts of Mato Grosso do Sul and the other of São Paulo.
Investigations indicate that the drug-trafficking faction commanded cocaine shipments from Bolivia, which entered Brazil through the southern border of Mato Grosso do Sul with Paraguay. Police said that with the arrival of Minotauro, violence had increased in the area.
Among the crimes attributed to him are the murders of a civilian police officer, Jarvis 'lawyer and Jarvis' cousin, in January of this year. According to the federal police, the trafficker arrested was allegedly involved in an attack in Paraguay in 2018. Criminals burned three houses and a car shop.
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1965] Federal Police said Tuesday (5) that she would continue to monitor the border and collaborate with the authorities.
Paraguay s. He said that he would step up his work to dismantle the factions.
"It is not enough to take drugs, carriers, to take the leaders of the organizations, to withdraw all the badets of these criminal organizations, so that they can not reorganize themselves and to act again ", said Cléo Mazzotti, PF's superintendent in Mato Grosso do Sul
The Paraguayan public prosecutor said Wednesday that he had stepped up border surveillance and did not rule out a new" leadership " taking control of the area.
& # 39; & # 39; When a head falls, there is always a second name. And in this case, we do not know who would be this second. I believe that if there is no war in the group of Minotaur, the second man should take command of the group. Here again, we will continue investigations to determine who would be the new leadership of this group, "said Attorney General Armando Canteira.
