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The crime occurred early in the morning and involved a gang with at least 10 criminals. They embroidered several people who were in the square in front of the Banco do Brasil branch and made them a human shield.

Neighbors denounced, on social networks, a night of terror. A man, identified as Alessandro de Jesus Lopes Moraes, was killed after being taken hostage. Another person was hit in the leg and had to be admitted to the city hospital, but without risk of death.

According to the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB), the gang lost the safe and did not take anything from the bank.

Experts from the Federal Police and the Civil Police traveled to Cametá and completed, this afternoon, the expert report at the bank branch, at the Military Police base and in vehicles. Bullet casings and other clues were found that will contribute to the clarification of the case and the identification of the suspects.

According to security agents, the orientation to the population is not to travel through Transcametá, one of the escape routes for criminals. “I live in Tucuruí and work in Cametá. While the assailants were escaping through Transcametá, which is precisely the route that I use, the police asked that no one circulate through Cametá, Limoeiro do Ajuru and Mocajuba in that period, because the search continues, ”says Dieh Kleine, a journalist from the region.

A team of bank workers’ unions was sent to Cametá to follow the case and hear from bank employees. “Sometimes, the bank employee is not embroidered, but if he heard a knock on his door at dawn, if they called his cell phone, if there was some kind of situation, the agent must be attentive to know if the bank employee was monitored by the gang. It could have happened from a car stopped in front of an employee’s house, something different from what happened in the last days before the robbery, ”says Tatiana Oliveira, president of the union.

A gang with at least 10 criminals took the streets of Cametá (PA), 235 km from Belém, and robbed a Banco do Brasil branch. The action took place early in the morning of this Wednesday (2).

Neighbors denounced, on social networks, a night of terror. A man, identified as Alessandro de Jesus Lopes Moraes, was killed after being taken hostage. Another person was hit in the leg and had to be admitted to the city hospital, but without risk of death.

According to the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB), the gang lost the safe and did not take anything from the bank.

• A gang with at least 10 criminals attacked a Banco do Brasil branch in Cametá, 235 km from Belém.
• The action started around midnight and lasted for about an hour and a half.
• The bandits used the inhabitants of the city as a human shield and attacked the 32nd Battalion of the Pará Military Police.
• One of the hostages died.
• Gang used high-caliber weapons and explosives.
• The bandits fled by car and then by boats.
• The governor said the thieves lost a safe and took nothing.
• No one was arrested.

The action has characteristics similar to registered in Criciúma, in the south of Santa Catarina, at dawn this Tuesday (1st), in which a gang also attacked the municipality in action to rob a branch of Banco do Brasil.

In 2020, the state recorded two other similar assaults: one in Ipixuna do Pará, on January 30, and in São Domingos do Capim, on April 3. According to the Secretariat of Public Security (Segup), “practically all those involved” were arrested. From 2017 to 2020, there were 51 robberies of this type in Pará, according to data from the secretariat.

As in Criciúma, the gang attacked a Military Police (PM) barracks, preventing the police from leaving, and used hostages as shields to move through the streets of the city. People were caught in bars.

This crime is known as “nuevo cangaço” or “vapor”, which is characterized by quick and violent actions, with many firearms being fired, hostage taking and the use of explosives. They are usually planned in medium and small cities, which have a smaller number of policemen. In action, the criminals surround the police battalions.

“A lot of people were watching the game, the bars were packed,” says Márcio Mendes, a resident of the city, in an interview with GloboNews. “They turned the people over and took them to the front of the Military Police base.”

The nutritionist Vinicius Valente, 33, lives in front of the 32nd Battalion of the Pará Military Police, which was surrounded by criminals.

“My daughter is sick, she was doing nebulization and I put her to sleep, around 11:30 pm, when it started, a lot of shooting. We thought it was because of the game he was having in the square, but then we started hearing screams in the street. And we start to despair The movement was in front of the Praça da Cultura [que engloba três praças que ficam uma do lado da outra: a da Justiça, a da Bandeira e a dos Artistas], where everything began. They took the hostages who were watching the game. The son of a lady who sells potato chips in front of the barracks was one of the hostages, the lady stayed inside the trailer and escaped, ”says Vinicius.

The criminals fired upwards for more than an hour. The group used weapons and high-caliber explosives. The videos record that 45 shots were heard in approximately 2 minutes.

The attacked BB agency, which is located in the Cametá City Hall building, was destroyed (see photo below).

In a note, Banco do Brasil said it will not open this Wednesday and that there are no records of BB employees or collaborators injured in the action. The bank also highlighted that it collaborates with the investigations and awaits the conclusion of the sweep of expert opinions and allow access to the site, when it will be possible to carry out an assessment of the damage to the structure and cleanliness of the agency. Banco do Brasil does not inform its agencies of the amounts subtracted during criminal attacks.

The bandits left the city on the Transcametá highway and followed the river. According to the prime minister, the group fled in cars and boats: the city is on the banks of the Tocantins River. Until 10:30 am, the Pará Public Security Secretariat (Segup) reported that there are no prisoners. A van with explosives was seized at km 15 of the road that connects Cametá with Tucurí, according to the government.

Cametá is one of the 10 largest cities in Pará, with around 136,000 inhabitants, according to IBGE, and is near the island of Marajó, in the north of the state. Governor Helder Barbalho (MDB) said he is heading to the municipality to follow up on the investigations.

“I am already in contact with the state public security summit, after the measures that are being taken in this episode, in the municipality of Cametá. We will do everything possible to see that peace is resumed as soon as possible and that the criminals are arrested. My total solidarity with the Cameta People ”, wrote the governor.

According to the first information from the State Government, during the flight the criminals left dynamite at km-40 of BR-422, still in Cametá. Later, at km 80 of the same road, but already in the municipality of Baião, a car was found suspected of having been used in the escape into the Itaperuçu river. Police believe the suspects followed them through the woods from there.

VIDEOS: see images of the dawn of terror on Cam

See below, videos posted on social media showing the gang’s action:

See comparison between the crimes of Criciúma and Cametá: