1970-01-01 02:00:00
The city of Rio de Janeiro has experienced scenes of war in the last few hours. Criminals linked to the city’s largest militia created chaos this Monday (23) after Matheus da Silva Rezende, aged 24, was killed by the Civil Police.
Silva was the nephew of Luiz Antônio da Silva Braga, known as Zinho, head of Bonde do Zinho, a militia that dominates the West Zone of the Capital. He is also one of the targets of the Civil Police operation that ended with the death of his nephew. At least 35 buses, passenger vehicles and a train were set on fire by militiamen in response to police action.
Given the War Scenario, Governor Cláudio Castro (PL) declared that the 12 detained for the crimes will be charged with terrorism.
The attacks caused disruption to the city’s transport system. Videos recorded by public transport users show people doing whatever they can to get to their destination. In one of the records, dozens of people traveled in a stork truck.
At around 6:40 pm, the city entered the Attention Stage caused by the attacks. This is the third level on a scale of five and means that one or more incidents impacted the municipality and affected the population’s routine.
Bus fires blocked several roads in the city, including Avenida Brasil, where a truck was set on fire near Manguariba.
At the end of the night, the situation was already more regular and the city returned to the Mobilization Stage at around 11:15 pm. Until this time, there was around 2 km of congestion in the metropolis. In the late afternoon, during the most intense period of attacks, almost 100 km of delays were recorded, according to COR (Rio Operations Center).
See roads that have been the target of attacks on buses and other vehicles.
– Rua Guarujá, at the height of the Cosmos viaduct. – Rua Felipe Cardoso, near the BRT Cajueiros. – Avenida Cesário de Melo, near the BRT Vilar Carioca. – Avenida Cesário de Melo, at Rua Carvalhal. – Estrada das Agulhas Negras, at Rua Jornalista G. de Carvalho. – Avenida Brasil, at Estrada do Campinho. – Estrada da Matriz, near the Fire Station. – Estrada do Campinho, near Rua Perico. – Rua Guarujá, at Rua Groselha. – Estrada do Mato Alto, near Obom Atacadão. – Avenida Brasil, at the height of the Guanabara Distribution Center. – Avenida Brasil, near Assaí. – Avenida Brasil, at Rua Agaí. – Avenida Cesário de Melo, at Rua dos Carpinteiros. – Avenida Brasil at Estrada de Manguariba. – Rua Filomena, near the Edgard Magalhães Gomes Municipal Health Center. – Estrada do Mato Alto, close to Estrada da Cachamorra, towards Barra da Tijuca. – Avenida das Américas, at the height of BRT Gilka Machado, towards Barra da Tijuca. – Avenida Brasil, at Estrada do Mendanha. – Av. Cesario de Melo, at Rua Alfredo Mariano. – Rua Arthur Rios, at Viaduto Novo. – Rua Barão de Laguna, in Santa Cruz. – Estrada da Pedra, in Guaratiba. – Estrada das Agulhas Negras, at Rua Antônio A Rodrigues. – Estrada de Sepetiba, close to Rua Dezesseis, in Santa Cruz. – Benvindo de Novaes Road, in Santa Cruz. – Supervia Tancredo Neves station.
At midnight on Tuesday, all roads had already been reopened.
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