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==** The attacks began on the afternoon of Sunday, April 21, when six men armed with rifles fired three vehicles at about 13h on the Red Line. While fleeing, the group attacked an official car of the Air Force Command (coma). On Tuesday, the entire police force of the river was put on the streets to combat the attacks and asked the support of the Federal Highway Police (PRF) to monitor the roads. Throughout the week, Navy, Army and Federal Police joined the security forces in combating the violence that resulted in more than 180 vehicles burned. On Thursday, 200 police officers took the village of BOPE Cruise in the Complexo da Penha. Some traffickers have fled to the German Complex, which was surrounded on Saturday. On Sunday morning, the forces effected the German occupation of the Complex, with virtually no resistance from criminals, according to the Military Police. Among those arrested Zeu, a leader of trafficking, convicted for the death of journalist Tim Lopes in 2002. Since the beginning of the attacks, at least 39 people died in clashes in Rio de Janeiro, over 120 were arrested and 181 vehicles were torched. **==  == ==  