Overview
- PGR Paulo Gonet, in the ADPF das Favelas case, asked Thursday for the Supreme Court to order Rio to turn over full IML autopsy reports and keep the chain of custody intact.
- Federal prosecutors say the Public Defender’s Office and victims’ groups were blocked from watching the exams and later from the reports that show wound paths, shot distance, photos, and projectile IDs needed to check for possible executions or disproportionate force.
- Rio’s Public Security Secretariat says it has already delivered the requested reports and images to the Court, setting up a dispute over actual access to the files.
- A report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights cited in the case describes scenes with no area isolation, bodies moved, and damaged evidence, which would hinder any independent reconstruction of how people died.
- The October raid in the Penha and Alemão complexes left more than 115 people dead alongside four officers. A prior order from Justice Alexandre de Moraes sent operation footage to the Federal Police for review, and the next steps now rest with the Supreme Court and could shape how families access case files in future investigations.