Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The 'narcos' shoot at a helicopter of the press in Brazil

BRASILIA, 25 A group of drug traffickers shot three times against the helicopter Brazilian channel Globo 'while trying to record images of a police operation in the Morro da Mineira slum in the state of Rio de Janeiro (southeast), said television. Only two of the bullets came to hitting the plane, a Eurocopter AS350-B2 known as 'Globocop' in the downtown area and the tail, thus damaging the control system, so that the pilot Antonio Ramos was forced to make an emergency landing at the airport Jacarepaguá.

In addition to Ramos, traveling by helicopter cameraman and journalist Roberto Mello Karina Borges. Although none of the crew have been injured, the authorities have ordered an investigation. For its part, the National Association of Journalists (ANJ, by its Portuguese acronym) has condemned this incident to see this as an attack on freedom of expression, because "the goal is that people do not know the truth what happens ", contains the statement.

As part of the police operation, was arrested on drug kingpin in the region and four people were injured. Agents also seized 300 kilograms of marijuana and two assault rifles, according to the General Slim Special Police Department (DGPE), Rolando Oliveira.

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