The images will alarm tourists and World Cup organisers, who anticipate more than half a million visitors for the month-long tournament. The clashes disrupted traffic, forced the partial closure of the General Osório metro station in Ipanema and led to power cuts in some neighbourhoods before order was restored. The circumstances of his death are as yet unclear. According to local media, one man was killed by a shot to the head. A preliminary police report, however, said the injuries were "compatible with a fall."ĭisbelieving favela residents took to the streets in protest, blocking key roads in Copacabana and exchanging gunfire with riot police. Pereira's mother said her son's body was covered in bruises. Friends and family members suspect the 26-year-old professional dancer was mistaken for a drug trafficker and beaten to death. ![]() ![]() The protest was sparked by the death of Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, whose body was found in a school during a police operation in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela.
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