Security & Strategic Review - March 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BRAZIL | Balance of  Santa Catarina riots. It was not until 26 February that the authorities of Santa Catarina state  were able to announce that a full day had passed without a single incident, after the wave of gang-led violence that began on 30 January [SSR-13-02]. By then there had been 113 incidents across 37 cities in the state. The civil police had arrested 103 suspects of involvement in these incidents, and a team of 40 officials of the public prosecution service had filed formal charges against 88 of them — a figure they expected to increase as investigations advanced.