BRAZIL |
Balance of Santa Catarina riots. It was not until 26 February that the authorities of Santa Catarina state were able to announce that a full day had passed without a single incident, after the wave of gang-led violence that began on 30 January [SSR-13-02]. By then there had been 113 incidents across 37 cities in the state. The civil police had arrested 103 suspects of involvement in these incidents, and a team of 40 officials of the public prosecution service had filed formal charges against 88 of them — a figure they expected to increase as investigations advanced.
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