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Last Wednesday (13), soccer fans of Flamengo promoted lamentable scenes of violence and vandalism. Police clashed with supporters inside and outside the Maracanã stadium, local of the World Cup final. After the game with Independiente, the Brazilian team saw the title of the South American Cup, stay with the argentine team. The confusion started even before the game, when Flamengo fans attacked an Argentine elderly with punches at the stadium door. They threw objects and even a cone on the bus that brought the Independiente's players. The situation worsened when soccer fans without tickets tried to invade the stadium, forcing the gates. The police reacted. Members of an organized crowd arrived in great numbers and tried to enter Maracanã stadium. Municipal guards made a barrier and scattered the group with tear gas bombs. The moods calmed down at the time of the game. But as soon as the match was over, police officers used the force to stop a fight in the Independi...

In preparation for the riots scheduled for Friday, the Brazilian government has decided to use brute force against rioters who invades public buildings in the country's capital. Thousands of National Security Force officers were photographed in the Justice Department's courtyard, on Thursday morning handling bombs and other artifacts used to block crowds. Here are the images released by the site Poder 360 :

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...

Journalists and Chinese athletes stayed stuck among a shooting on the morning of Thursday, as they passed by the Yellow Line, two kilometers from the Tom Jobim International Airport. Four armed men shot at a military police vehicle. According to information from the 21th Police Department (in the Bonsucesso neighborhood), one of the shots hit the bus door, but no one was injured. Through Twitter, the portal " Global Times " published photos that were taken at the time of exchange of fire. Street vendors selling goods on the road lay on the ground to try to protect the shots. Journalists and athletes were heading to the village of Athletes in separate buses. The Civil Police reported that there's no reference in the record of casualties or involvement of Olympic delegation.

External view of the building where the assault occurred A officer of a security company that provide services in the Velodrome of the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, was arrested for sexual assault on a woman. This was reported by Corriere dello Sport . If it is found guilty of sexual assault, he'll to fulfill two to six years in prison. Between 85,000  police and soldiers have been mobilized to ensure security during the Olympic Games (5-21 August).

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...

Confiscated material with fans of both teams: iron bars and firecrackers .. Fights between fans of Palmeiras and Corinthians, hours before the game last Sunday ended with one dead and 25 people arrested. The clashes took place in three locations in the metropolitan area of ​​São Paulo: Sao Miguel Paulista in the east zone of the city, in Guarulhos and in the subway station Brás, on downtown. The fatal victim, according to the military police, not involved in the confrontation. He was hit by a stray bullet as he passed by a square, opposite the train station of São Miguel Paulista neighborhood. The shot hit the heart of the pedestrian, who died instantly. Man killed during a clash of rival fans In another area of ​​São Paulo, in the Brás subway station, the police were called to break up a fight between members of the supporters of the two teams. The train circulation came to be interrupted. The riot squad entered the Brás station to stop the confrontation. According to a...

Thieves jumping of bus window after performing assault With less than a year to the start of the Olympics, the violence in Rio de Janeiro is growing at an alarming rate. A crime wave involving stabbing in the streets and squares, gave way to thefts on buses and subways. "It's the worst job that I've ever worked," fumed a driver. The buses is crowded in the first stopping points, although the number of paying persons doesn't reach five. With full bus, a group of about 10 young begin the assaults. When the buses arrive in the city center, the congestion further facilitates theft. From the middle to the back of the bus, they destroy all the seats and rear windshield. They pull the lever and push with your feet. The assaults committed by young people on buses is common during all days of the week. Motorists say that the problems in the bus lines are repeated constantly. Young people that go to the beach to commit assaults are called "sea air"...

Man dressed as Batman argues with mayor of São Paulo Due to the increasing wave of violence that swept the Brazilian urban centers, several groups of people began to take justice into their own hands. Fight with bandits on the streets, arrest offenders on poles with chains and lynch the thieves in public places, became common activity in Brazil. To complete, a group of "vigilantes" began to act dressed as American superheroes fighting crime in Brazilian streets and even doing actions that benefit the environment. One of the points worked by public security experts is that these people are fighting spontaneously against crime because the Brazilian government is inefficient and does not have enough structure to educate young people and fight crime at the same time. In the state of São Paulo there is a deficit of about 100,000 police officers, besides the fact that public schools not form honest citizens due to little investment the federal government in educatio...

Police attack young man with a skateboard It wasn't enough all the aggressiveness with which the Brazilian police treat the population in the last years with rubber bullets and tear gas, police in the state of São Paulo started beating people with other objects such as rocks and even a skateboard. In January, during a manifestation against the increase in bus fares, the state police surrounded a group of protesters who were unarmed and protesting peacefully. After beating in the people with sticks and rubber bullets, cowardly attacked a young man that was isolated from the group, applying blows to the boy's head with a skateboard. The governor was approached by newspapers and magazines but gave no explanation of the fact.

Stray bullet victim is buried in Rio de Janeiro A very common fact in Brazil in the last 10 years is the high number of deaths by stray bullet. Occurring generally in locations near slums and drug points located in large urban centers, these deaths usually affect innocent people passing by at the time of an exchange of fire among cops and robbers or drug dealers. But in recent years, this type of crime has been occurring in middle class neighborhoods and affecting people of higher social classes. It's common nowadays cases of people who were shot in college door, in the shopping center or on the subway exit. What makes matters worse is that Brazilian authorities cannot identify the culprits, who always are kept unpunished.

After the revelation of numerous cases of corruption involving the current president of Brazil and members of the federal government, thousands of people are going to the streets of several cities every weekends to protest, but the main TV channels ( Globo , SBT , Bandeirantes and Record ) don't exhibit these manifestations and prefer to display news about violence cases in USA and European countries.