Moraes Orders Rio to Send Operation Footage to Federal Police for Forensic Review

Overview

• In a ruling under ADPF 635, the justice set a 15-day window for all images from Operação Contenção to be delivered to the Federal Police for transcription and a technical report.
• He also gave the National Council of Justice five days to report on the analysis of Rio’s territorial reoccupation plan and asked the state prosecutor’s office to detail its oversight of the operation.
• The October 2025 operation in the Alemão and Penha complexes left 121 dead, and a congressional human-rights report cited indications of executions, torture, concealed bodies and crime-scene tampering.
• Separately, TCU minister Aroldo Cedraz maintained a R$1 million Embratur transfer to Acadêmicos de Niterói, while the school’s president, Wallace Palhares, was dismissed from a post at the Rio state assembly.
• Ceará’s governor signed a decree reclassifying police in inquests as “interventors” rather than “authors” in cases of deaths or injuries from interventions, following recent fatal incidents.