Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered 118 Federal Police forensic reports related to Operation Contenção against the Comando Vermelho group in Rio de Janeiro to be sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The examinations covered footage from officers’ body cameras, photographs and autopsy reports. Twelve reports were based on video recorded by officers from the Civil Police’s Core special unit. Another 106 used photographs and forensic reports supplied by Rio de Janeiro state police. The Federal Police also submitted a separate analysis of Core officers’ video footage.
Moraes instructed prosecutors to maintain strict confidentiality and follow evidence-custody rules. The material was delivered to the Supreme Court on an external hard drive and flash drives.
The justice had ordered the Federal Police review in February under ADPF 635, a case often called the Favelas case. He said then that submissions to the court contained conflicting information at times and that additional evidence was needed to assess the operation and compliance with court orders.
The February order also sought body-camera footage from state authorities and asked prosecutors to explain their oversight of the operation and the division of monitoring duties among specialist units. Moraes asked the National Council of Justice for an update on its review of a territorial recovery plan submitted by the Rio state government in December 2025.
The order referred to a report by the Chamber of Deputies’ human rights, minorities and racial equality committee. That report cited signs of possible executions, torture, concealment of bodies and altered crime scenes during the operation. Those allegations were attributed to the committee’s report and do not amount to a final Supreme Court finding.