Stories that are getting the most attention from our readers this month.
A ProPublica investigation uncovered internal Secret Service emails from July 2024 showing agents dismissed warnings about a suspicious individual at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally where an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump occurred. The emails, obtained via FOIA, reveal supervisors overruled field agents' requests for drone surveillance and additional manpower due to staffing shortages. This accountability reporting highlights systemic failures that allowed the shooter to access a rooftop vantage point, resulting in one death and injuries.
The Civil Police served four arrest warrants on Monday (9) in the 6th phase of Operation Gotham City. The operation targets members of the Red Command criminal faction involved in a wave of murders in Palmas during the first half of 2023. Four arrest warrants were issued against executors and members of the organization's leadership, including leaders known as “Lust” (or LX) and “Blind Rooster.” “Blind Rooster” had already been captured in early February this year in Morro do Vidigal, in Rio de Janeiro. One of the executors who was on the motorcycle was arrested in the Jardim Aureny III sector. The suspects' names were not disclosed, and g1 was unable to contact their defense.
Swiss prosecutors have expanded the investigation into the fire at a ski resort bar that killed 41 people, most of them teenagers. The mayor of the tourist city of Crans-Montana, Nicolas Feraud, has been added to the list of suspects according to a prosecutors' document obtained by Reuters. Feraud appears as a defendant in the document, which summons him to testify on April 13. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Feraud, in his 50s, had previously admitted that the municipality failed to conduct several annual safety inspections. The public prosecutor's office in the canton of Valais confirmed to Reuters that new people are now being investigated in the case.
A 28-year-old man was arrested after identifying himself as a member of a criminal faction and beating a 10-year-old child suspected of an act analogous to attempted robbery at Praia de Iracema in Fortaleza on Sunday (8). Witnesses recorded the man slapping the boy and stating the area was controlled by Comando Vermelho (Red Command, a major Brazilian criminal organization originating from Rio de Janeiro prisons), reprimanding the child for stealing in the region. The videos went viral on social media. According to the Security Secretariat, the victim of the attempted robbery did not want to file a report against the child. The aggressor was captured by agents from the Tourist Police Battalion (BPtur) in the Meireles neighborhood. He has prior records for fraud and crimes against public administration.
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