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The Brazilian Bar Association, OAB, is considering whether to submit an official request of federal troop intervention in the state of Ceara after 14 people were killed at a nightclub over the weekend.
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Francisco Garisco, president of the OAB's Public Security Commission of Ceara, said the state registers 15 murders per day.
"That doesn't happen in Syria or Iraq," he said, according to Agencia Brasil.
"Last year, there were 5,440 murders (in Ceara) and, only in this month of January, more than 400 people have been killed."
The OAB also released a public statement saying that this weekend's massacre “corroborates what the people of Ceara have already been witnessing in their day-to-day life. We are experiencing a collapse in public security.”
Fourteen people were killed and sixteen others injured this past weekend while attending a party in the neighborhood of Bairro Cajazeiras in the city of Fortaleza. Several armed gunmen arrived in cars at the Forro do Gago nightclub and opened fire, according to G1.
The OAB noted that it was the largest number of people killed in a single event in the northeastern state of Ceara and attributed the deaths to criminal factions. However, authorities said the motive remains unknown.
Seven suspects were detained in connection with the massacre earlier today, according to Folha de Sao Paulo.
Ceara's governor, Camil Santana, noted on his Facebook page that he demanded “absolute rigor during the investigations” so that “all involved are identified and jailed as soon as possible. We will not accept, at all, that this type of barbaric act goes unpunished.”
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