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On the morning of March 8, the Civil Police executed an operation against a Chinese mafia, which resulted in the arrest of 14 people in the cities of São Paulo and Guarujá. The investigations against this group, were started after an occurrence of three homicides of Chinese people, in the city of São Paulo. According to Elisabete Sato, a delegate responsible, "During the investigations, were discovered the practice of other crimes, such as cases of extortion, kidnapping, trafficking in women, exploitation, games, in short, a range of activities that give reasons to arrest". According to the State Department of Public Security (SSP), detainees and victims belong to the Chinese province of Fujian. When they arrived in Brazil, they went to the electronics trade and another to the two factions operating in the central part of the city, extorting money from their compatriots to offer protection and practice other crimes. "When people refused to pay, they were beate...

The urban violence in Brazil seems to have no limits. Roberto Bardella, 52, was killed in the Morro dos Prazeres, Santa Teresa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro. He and his cousin Rino Polato, 59, were on two motorcycles and entered the slum by mistake and were killed by traffickers who confused them with police investigators. The Italian newspaper " Corriere della Sera " heard a friend of Bardella, the councilman Ennio Valiante - from the city of Jesolo, near Venice, where Bardella lived.  "Roberto? He was very cheerful and very cautious, He loved to ride a motorcycle and a year ago he was planning a trip to Rio de Janeiro," the councilor told the Italian newspaper. "A mutual friend said he had heard Bardella a few days ago and said that they would go to a favela to exchange a part of the motorcycle," added Ennio Valiante, adding that the Brazilian police quoted a mistake on the way from his friend until the slum. The news also says that the dead tou...

Car where the New Zealand's tourist was held hostage The Military Police (PM) arrested two military police officers who kidnapped and extorted the New Zealand's fighter jiu-jitsu, Jason Lee. The crime happened last Saturday (July 23), in Duque de Caxias, in the metropolitan area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, when the athlete was returning from a competition. According to the advisory press of the corporation, the case is being determined and if any misconduct proved, the two cops will be subject to administrative disciplinary proceedings and may be expelled. The PM said that "does not tolerate misconduct and acts like this sadden the nearly 50,000 honest police officers fighting crime every day," the statement said. Through its social network, Jason said officers approached him and threatened him with arrest if he didn't get in the police car. The New Zealander, who lives ten months in Rio, also said that the police took him to ATMs, for him to take m...

A family was chased and beaten by taxi drivers on the night of May 31 in Brasilia, after being mistaken for Uber drivers. The episode occurred when four brothers landed in the Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport and followed by car to Ceilândia, a nearby city. The Civil Police investigates the case. According to one of the victims, a taxi driver closed his car and after the collision, pretended he would "solve" the situation. The family was surrounded and attacked, despite the protests that were not Uber drivers. "When we pulled up, more than 50 taxi drivers have arrived at the car, breaking the car glass, knocking on people, and shouting, 'Kill that is Uber, death to the Uber', then I talked about: 'We are a family, we are coming trip, don't, don't', said one of the victims. Sticker says "I'm not a Uber driver" The case was registered at the 10th Police Station and one of the attackers recognized by ph...

A woman with 42 year old was raped in a land invaded, on the night of June 4, in the Castro Pires neighborhood in Teófilo Otoni city, in Minas Gerais. According to the military police, two men raped the victim in a wooden tent and canvas and are fugitives. According to the military, the victim, who showed signs of intoxication with alcohol, reported to police that she was in a bar when a man invited to his house. However, the victim was forcibly taken to camp and, according to her, she was forced to make sex into one of the Landless Movement tents. The victim said that when he arrived on the spot, another man was waiting. The woman was referred to a hospital in the city to carry out tests. Until 14:35 the next day, police also performed searches and no one had been arrested. In Brazil, the Landless Movement is a political grouping of communist orientation that aims at the end of private property, the end of the Catholic Church and the destruction of the market economy. ...

A group of militants of President Dilma Rousseff chose the wrong place for his act: the Rio Sul Mall is one of the largest shopping centers of Rio de Janeiro. The group entered the food court, where there were some families with children and began to attack the people with verbal insults and even with physical aggression: some people who were consuming fast-food products were unfairly attacked. The group stayed for about 10 minutes screaming and caused disturbances. The leader of the militants, with a megaphone shouted, "This mall doesn't receive poor people. But today, stopped to receive us. " At the same time, they began a be booed by the mall users and store employees. At the end of the act, the group leader distributed bread with mortadella and they left the place. They expected support from the public but only managed to even be booed by  mall users. So security guards surrounded the group and drove them out, while the police was called.