Brazil arrests 1st suspect in rape video
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BRAZILIAN police have arrested the first of over 30 suspects wanted over the gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl whose attackers posted a graphic video online showing the aftermath of their brutal attack.
The Saturday arrest came as some 70 military police fanned out across a slum west of Rio de Janeiro in a huge operation to apprehend those suspected of taking part in the assault that has shocked Brazil.
The detained suspect, who was not identified, was being interrogated, said police, who vowed to bring the other alleged attackers to justice.
Social media networks erupted with outrage over the footage posted last Wednesday featuring the girl naked on a bed and the apparent attackers bragging that she had been raped by more than 30 men.
They are suspected of assaulting her on May 21 in Rio de Janeiro, a city hit by violent crime and which will host the Olympic Games in August.
“Those who committed this heinous crime will be found, will be imprisoned and condemned,” Justice Minister Alexandre de Morais said in Rio on Friday night.
Brazil’s acting president Michel Temer said: “It is absurd that in the 21st century we should have to live with barbaric crimes such as this.”
The video has horrified a country not unused to violent crime.
The UN women’s rights agency condemned the case along with another recent alleged gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl in the state of Piaui.
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