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MACAPÁ – Without electricity, the inhabitants of the cities of Amapá They face rubber bands and morale bombs. A wave of riots in the blackout, which enters this Sunday 8, on the sixth day, takes place in the outskirts.
Saturday at 7 and Sunday morning, protest in Remédios II, in the municipality of Santana, 20 kilometers from Macapa, was repressed by the shock troops of the Special Operations Battalion of the Military Police. The agents dispersed the demonstration, which blocked with fire and fatigue one of the access roads to the city, of about 120 thousand inhabitants.
This Saturday, The federal government announced the resumption of the supply of 65% of the energy, with a rotation system.. Residents, however, report instability in and around Macapá. The official forecast is that the situation will completely normalize only by the end of this week, but the Justice forced the restoration of power in the State in up to three days.
The protests of the neighbors for the lack of solution to the interruption of the electricity and water network, which depends on pumps, have been taking place since last Tuesday 3 in different parts of the State, including the capital. An electrical substation caught fire on Tuesday, causing the blackout.
The Amapá police summit endorsed the use of shock against the events, which do not have a defined leadership. In the previous days, there were less tense demonstrations in São José, Pedrinhas and Muca. They are all low-income neighborhoods in the southern region of Macapá.
In Santana, residents complained about the frustrated expectation of a temporary restoration in the neighborhoods located on Rua Cláudio Lúcia Monteiro, at the entrance to the municipality, via the Santana Forum. The promise was that they would have power for six hours on Saturday. In less than sixty minutes, the supply was down.
With the fan off and the window open, mosquitoes invade the houses
The same oscillation occurred in other parts of the city. It is a reality that contrasts with the appearance of normalization and resolution that the federal government seeks to demonstrate. In the communities, total darkness increases the fear of violence.
The most common complaint on the streets of the neighborhood is the inability to use fans and air conditioning. With this, the carapanã, infernal rubber mosquitoes of the Amazon, take advantage of the open windows to make hot nights unpleasant.
Neighbors do not have information on the rotation criteria for choosing the neighborhoods to light, nor on the periods in which energy will be available at the points of sale. “We are complaining because we cannot take it anymore. We don’t know what else to do. We are without electricity, without internet, without communication. This is not fair. For some it has (Energy)Not for others, ”said Marta Lúcia Moraes, a 47-year-old housewife.
Law enforcement officers admit concern about the escalation of the revolt
The clock struck 10:50 p.m. Saturday as protesters surrounded the news team. Men and women, young and old, from the Remedios II neighborhood, were run over in dramatic outbursts. No communication, said one. There’s no power to refrigerate expensive meats, another complained. There is no water for bathing. There is no water to clean the bathrooms.
“We cannot remain silent. We cannot accept what they are trying to impose on us. We have to go out to the streets to demonstrate, to pursue our rights. We run out of food, it spoils ”, shouts Juliana de Jesús, 28.
Four young men appeared, their faces covered with T-shirts so as not to reveal their identities. The reporting team was informed that the military police officers had threatened to arbitrarily arrest them, but without giving details. “Reporting? You can stay humble. We want answers, we don’t want to break anything, ”said one of them. The riot police came quietly. Under the command of a lieutenant, he took the lead with moral ammunition. The protesters responded by throwing sticks and stones.
As they moved towards the barricades, they advised the report to be cautious when crossing cross streets: local people often have shotguns and, protected by darkness, could become radicalized. The climb continued for another hour. There were no reports of injuries until the beginning of the day. Law enforcement officials said they were concerned about the scale of the unrest if the situation did not return to normal soon.
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