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Thu Jun 12, 2014, 05:52 AM Jun 2014

Police Raid Activists’ Homes, Arrest 8 On Eve Of FIFA’s World Cup

“Literally on the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the State anticipates and holds for “future crimes” in an attempt to intimidate protesters.

The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro has recently run a series of arrests.This morning activists Elisa Frames (known as Tinkerbell), the lawyer Eloisa Samy and cameraman Thiago Ramos, were arrested at home, and are being taken to research in DRCI – Police Repression of Crimes Informatics. Last week in Goiania, search warrants and seizure had already been used as a means of curtailing the right to protest and tactics of coercion against the population that wishes to express their outrage over the FIFA event.

In the seven years that have passed since the announcement of the World Cup in Brazil, the lack of dialogue with civil society, submission laws imposed by FIFA, removals, high costs and genocide in the periphery appear to be the practical results that mostly affect the population.

http://revolution-news.com/breaking-police-raid-activists-homes-arrest-8-anarchists-bb-antifa-on-eve-of-fifas-world-cup-updates/

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