Guardiões do Estado
Territory | Ceará, Brazil |
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Ethnicity | Brazilians |
Activities | Murder, drug trafficking, extortion, assault and rebellion |
Allies | Terceiro Comando Puro,[1] Primeiro Comando da Capital[2] |
Rivals | Comando Vermelho, Família do Norte[3] |
The Guardiões do Estado (in English: Guardian of the State), or the acronym GDE, is a Brazilian criminal faction. It operates in the state of Ceará.
It is the 4th largest faction in Brazil and is made up mostly of poorly prepared teenagers,[4] pre-teens and young adults.[5] One of the main reasons would be the lack of monthly fees.[6]
The place or date of origin of the faction is not known for sure, as some sources claim that the faction emerged in mid-2012, others claim that it emerged in 2006,[7] 2015, 2014 or 2016,[8][9][10] but the most accepted is that it appeared in 2017, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras.[11][12]
Faction power is decentralized, so there is no overall faction leader. Currently, it is known for burning buses, massacres and homicides in the state,[13] the most notable being the Massacre of Cajazeiras .[14][15]
See also
References
- ^ "GDE na espreita para retomar territórios perdidos". Bemdito (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "PCC não entrou em guerra contra aliada no CE por ser menor, diz MP". R7.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "Facções criminosas PCC, CV e FDN fazem pacto para acabar com GDE no Ceará". Ubajara Notícias (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ Segundo, iG Último (2021-10-07). "Saiba quais são as principais facções criminosas do Brasil". Portal iG (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "GDE: a facção que arregimenta adolescentes e adultos jovens - Segurança". Diário do Nordeste (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ Povo, O. (2017-04-21). "Inimigos ainda desconhecidos". O Povo - Cotidiano (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ Análise do estabelecimento das facções criminosas no Ceará
- ^ "Guardiões do Estado (GDE): uma facção cearense com pretensões nacionais". Revista Berro (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ Povo, O. (2021-01-30). "Facção se fortaleceu com enfraquecimento de rival, analisa promotor". O POVO (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "Polícia investiga perfis de Youtube e Facebook com clipes que exaltam facções criminosas". 2017-06-10. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ Bedinelli, Talita (2018-03-26). "Fortaleza sitiada". El País Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "GDE é facção nova e tem 'crueldade como marca', diz sociólogo". R7.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ Povo, O. (2017-05-30). "Ação de facções extrapola presídios e afeta comunidades". O Povo - Cotidiano (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "Facção assume autoria de Chacina das Cajazeiras; Facção rival promete revanche". 2018-10-24. Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ "Grupo que aterroriza CE tem exército de jovens e poder descentralizado - 05/02/2018 - Cotidiano - Folha". 2021-07-17. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
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