Rio de Janeiro122 people died in Brazil’s deadliest police raid.

Residents recovered bodies from the forest escape route and lined them up in a Vila Cruzeiro square.

Civil and Military police stormed Penha and Alemão on 28 October 2025 under then-governor Cláudio Castro, targeting the Comando Vermelho.

Five of the dead were police officers.

Tauã Brito, whose son Wellington died, first set foot in the square again on 12 October.

How each outlet framed it
Agência Pública leans critical
anchors the one-year anniversary in a Dia das Criancas scene, with a father's account of the Penha victim and the drone footage

Sources: Agência Pública