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Thursday July 21, 18 people were killed during a gigantic police operation in Rio (Brazil). In this megalopolis, organized crime is on the rise, like the expansion of the militia, a powerful paramilitary group that sows terror.
Hitherto discreet, members of the militia in Brazil, whose name and number are unknown, are now showing off their conquests on social networks. Founded in the 1990s, the militia has since molt into a multitude of paramilitary groups, each more violent than the other. They terrorize all those who do not obey them not.
A mother mourns her son, who was killed four years ago before being cut into pieces and thrown into a river. A barbaric murder like so many others in Brazil. The militia, which resembles a state within a state, also brews billions of euros. In the great west of Rio, it controls everything, from the delivery of gas to the distribution of cable television. It forces traders and transporters to pay a tax in exchange for their safety, on pain of reprisals or death.
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