In Rio de Janeiro, police from other states sent to strengthen security were robbed

Two agents from a contingent of 300 National Forces soldiers sent to Rio de Janeiro to beef up security in the Brazilian city fell victim to the violence they were trying to resist on Tuesday. The police were robbed when they mistakenly entered a favela in the north of this city and were left, among other things, without their pistols.

According to a report they filed with local police, two agents, one from the state of Alagoas in northeastern Brazil and the other from Acre in the north, infiltrated the Chapadao favela, north of the capital Rio de Janeiro. Janeiro was mistakenly guided by a road navigation app. The men went to refuel their unmarked official car and activated the app to return to their base in Campo dos Afonso, in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro, as they still do not know the city well. .

According to the report, when they entered Fernando Lobo Street in Complexo do Chapadao under police direction, they were surrounded by several armed men, believed to be drug dealers from the faction that dominates the favela. However, according to their colleagues in uniform, the robbers, having learned that they were police officers, but from other states, did not kill them, as they usually do with city agents when identifying them, but demanded that they surrender their powerful 9.mm caliber pistols belonging to National forces.

After handing over the weapons to the corporation, the agents say they were allowed to continue their journey, and the military police of Rio de Janeiro, having learned of what had happened, carried out an operation in Chapadao and managed to recover the weapons. The National Force, a federal force directly under the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, is composed of military police officers from several Brazilian states and participates in special operations to support and strengthen regional corporations.