Brazil’s powerful PCC crime syndicate has threatened to launch terror-style attacks during the World Cup and presidential polls next year, the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo reported on Tuesday.
The so-called First Command of the Capital, which operates from jails in Sao Paulo state, vowed to unleash a “World Cup of terror” if its chiefs are transferred and isolated in other prisons.
O Estado’s report followed its revelation last week of details of an extensive report by Sao Paulo state prosecutors on PCC activities.
“The threats extend to 2014, when they are promising a ‘World Cup of terror’ and attacks during the presidential elections,” it warned.
The First Capital Command is one of Brazil’s most notorious organized crime groups. Controlled by jailed crime kingpins, the group is allegedly behind several waves of attacks on police, government buildings, banks and public buses. Assaults and counterattacks by police in the slums have killed more than 1000 people.
