The operation on Tuesday 28th mobilized more than 2,500 police officers in the fight against the Comando Vermelho (CV) faction.
Summary
The mega-operation in Rio de Janeiro against the Red Command mobilized 2,500 police officers, resulted in 64 deaths and had major international repercussions due to extreme violence and the use of drones by criminals.
On Tuesday 28th, the population of Rio de Janeiro watched with anguish the mega police operation against the Vermelho Command (CV). The actions, considered the deadliest in the city’s history, took place in the Alemão and Penha complexes, in the Northern Zone of the capital Rio de Janeiro. At least 64 people were killed, including four police officers.
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The violence of the action had repercussions in the main international press. The North American The New York Times he cited the death toll and described the operation as a “crackdown on drug gangs.”
The Argentine newspaper Clarin stressed on the site’s cover that this “was one of the biggest blows against the bloodthirsty Red Command, which used drones to drop explosives on police officers.” Now the compatriot The Nation he focused on the scale of the operation, the largest in history, “with scenes of extreme violence described by the authorities as a war”.
In Europe, the British periodical The Guardian he used quotes from Renê Silva, a community activist and journalist who runs a local newspaper called Voz das Comunidades: “The problem of crime in Rio must be fought in other places, not just in the favelas. We don’t have marijuana or cocaine plantations here. We don’t have weapons factories here. This is not a fight against crime, it’s a fight against poverty.”
The Spaniards El País they highlighted the numbers of the mega-operation and the request for help from the Armed Forces by the governor of Rio, Cláudio Castro.
Meanwhile the Portuguese newspaper The audience he recalled that “military interventions against criminal groups in Rio de Janeiro have multiplied in recent years”.
French radio RFI highlighted the fear of residents during the fighting. “It’s the first time we’ve seen drones (of criminals) dropping bombs on the community,” a young man told AFP on condition of anonymity. “Everyone is scared because there is a lot of shooting.”
Discover the police operations with the highest number of deaths in the city of Rio, since 1990
- 64 deaths (including 4 police officers) in Penha and Alemão, in October 2025, in an operation conducted by military and civil police;
- 28 deaths (including 1 police officer) in Jacarezinho, in May 2021, in an operation conducted by the Civil Police;
- 23 died in Penha, in May 2022, in an operation conducted by military, civil and federal traffic police;
- 19 died in Alemão, in June 2007, in an operation conducted by the Military and Civil Police;
- 17 deaths (including 1 police officer) in Alemão, in July 2022, in an operation conducted by military and civil police;
- 17 deaths (including 2 police officers) in Senador Camará, in January 2003, in an operation conducted by the Military Police;
- 15 died in Fallet, in February 2019, in an operation conducted by the Military Police;
- 14 died in Alemão, in May 1995, in an operation conducted by the Military Police;
- 13 died in São Gonçalo, Salgueiro, in March 2023, in an operation conducted by military and civil police;
- 13 died in Vidigal, in July 2006, in a Military Police operation;
- 13 died in Catumbi, in April 2007, in a Military Police operation;
- 13 died in Alemão, in July 1994, in an operation conducted by the Civil Police.
Source: Terra
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