The Complexo do Alemão massacre was the result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and the police in the borough of the same name in Rio de Janeiro, which consisted of a group of large favelas in the northern region of the city.
The Order of Attorneys of Brazil issued a report claiming that at least eleven of the people killed had no relations with drug trafficking whatsoever.
[1] Until the end of the XV Pan-American Games a large siege was formed by the police in the region—to secure the safety of the international event, some people claim.
[2] While it eventually got attached the demotic sobriquet Gaza strip,[3] a report published by the federal government revealed that there were executions at the operation.
[4] José Mariano Beltrame, the officer in charge of the Public Security Department in the state of Rio de Janeiro, responded to the federal government report by saying that "it was done in a hurry by those who misrepresent the fair cause of the human rights.