Brazil Lynch Mob Destroys Police Stations
Mon Dec 27, 2004 -11:41 PM ET By MICHAEL ASTOR, Associated Press Writer RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - An angry mob destroyed police stations and a courthouse in two Amazon towns while trying to lynch murder suspects, officials said Monday. One man was killed during the rioting and 44 people were arrested. "It was like something out of the movies," police Lt. Marcelo Albuquerque said of the mob of 500 to 600 people, many of them motorcycle taxi drivers bent on avenging the slaying of a colleague. The riot was precipitated by the arrest Saturday of two suspects for the killing of Manoel Ailson Silvino Borges, a 26 year-old motorcycle taxi driver in Salinopolis, a coastal town of 40,000 people about 1,600 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. On Sunday, a group of motorcycle taxi drivers headed to the neighboring town of Capenema, where the men had been arrested, intent on killing them, Albuquerque said. Upon discovering that for administrative reasons the suspects had been transferred to Belem, the state capital, the taxi drivers rioted in a police station, stealing guns, destroying official documents and setting the station on fire. Two police motorcycles were also burned. The mob then returned to Salinopolis, where they were met by the mayor and police chief at the city limits in a failed attempt to avoid a repeat of the violence. The mob burned the police station and the courthouse and freed 20 prisoners from the jail. Several police cars were burned in the rioting. One man was killed in the rioting and several policemen suffered minor injuries, Albuquerque said. Details of the death were not immediately available. "We don't think it was the motorcycle taxi drivers who were really responsible, but rather local bandits who decided to take advantage of the situation," Albuquerque said. He said the situation was under control Monday after over 150 policemen from around the state had been dispatched to keep the peace. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
