She was only 8 years old ... Agatha Felix was buried Sunday, September 22, after being killed the day before by a bullet lost during a police operation in a favela of Rio. She was in a van when the bullet hit her. His family, supported by the inhabitants of the neighborhood, express their immense sadness and indignation.
To shed light on the circumstances of his death, the authorities of the State of Rio de Janeiro announced the opening of an investigation. The police said they intervened to deal with simultaneous attacks by criminal gangs in different parts of the favela. But according to witnesses, there were no clashes at that time and the girl was reportedly shot while police fired on two people on a motorcycle. Deaths due to violence in Brazil rose by 10.4% in 2018, according to the Brazilian Forum for Public Security (FBSP).
According to a poll conducted by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in 2018, more than nine out of 10 Rio de Janeiro residents are afraid of being in the middle of a shoot-out between police and criminals, and 92% of them are afraid that they or relatives are hit by a stray bullet, or injured or even killed during an armed robbery.