Military police fight for their rights
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has sent military and national guard troops to the north-eastern state of Ceará in an attempt to quell a brewing security crisis triggered by police officers’ strike.
The decision was taken on Thursday after chaotic scenes during which a local senator was shot and wounded after he drove a digger at a picketing line held by masked cops.
An editorial in the Folha de Sao Paulo called the Ceará strike “armed blackmail” that requires to be “contained” before it spills over to other states.
Military police strikes are illegal in Brazil, and sometimes terribly bloody. A 2017 strike in the state of Espírito Santo sawmore than 200 murders in three weeks. According to the G1 news website, Ceará, a costal state of just about nine million people, recorded fifty-one homicides in 48 hours of strike while nine of the state’s forty-three force barracks were occupied by masked men.
But with growing political strength and a sympathetic president, analysts see extra potentialities of amnesties for the illegal strikes and much less probability of sanction.
The decision was taken on Thursday after chaotic scenes during which a local senator was shot and wounded after he drove a digger at a picketing line held by masked cops.
An editorial in the Folha de Sao Paulo called the Ceará strike “armed blackmail” that requires to be “contained” before it spills over to other states.
Military police strikes are illegal in Brazil, and sometimes terribly bloody. A 2017 strike in the state of Espírito Santo sawmore than 200 murders in three weeks. According to the G1 news website, Ceará, a costal state of just about nine million people, recorded fifty-one homicides in 48 hours of strike while nine of the state’s forty-three force barracks were occupied by masked men.
But with growing political strength and a sympathetic president, analysts see extra potentialities of amnesties for the illegal strikes and much less probability of sanction.
In 2018, Brazil elected four senators and thirty-two congressmen from police backgrounds.
Police militaire en grève
Le président d’extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro, a envoyé des troupes de l’armées et de la garde nationale dans la région de Ceara pour essayer de stopper le mouvement de grève des policiers qui exigent une augmentation de salaire.
Cette décision a été prise jeudi après des scènes chaotiques ou le sénateur de centre-gauche Cid Gomes a été blessé par balles après avoir tenté, aux commandes d'une pelleteuse, de briser un piquet de grève de policiers mutinés. Certains considèrent cette grève comme du « chantage armé » qu’il faut « contenir » avant que d’autres états soient touchés.
Ces mouvements de grèves sont illégaux et souvent très sanglants. En 2017, une grève dans l’état d’Espirito Santo a fait plus de deux cents victimes.
Selon le site G1, cette grève aurait déjà fait cinquante-et-une victimes et neuf des 43 postes de police de la région étaient occupés par des hommes masqués. Mais, selon les analystes, grâce à une forte croissance politique les chances d’amnisties pour ces grèves illégales augmentent et une probable diminution des peines seront mises en place.
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