World Cup 2010 Blog: Operation Hooligans: Keeping The Streets Of Rio Clean.

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Operation Hooligans: Keeping The Streets Of Rio Clean. Posted: 16 Sep 2010 07:40 AM PDT As Ukraine cleans out stray animals, Rio de Janiero is doing the same with hooligans ahead of the 2014 World Cup, as well as the Olympics four years later. Whether or not they’ll get the same rumored treatment – lethal injection – we don’t know. But we can be assured that somehow, the Klitschko brothers will be involved here too. The movement to dust up Rio has been dubbed Operation Hooligan, which sounds like it could spawn a Grand Theft Auto spin-off in the future. EA Sports just found another way to make a buck off a major tournament. Rio police arrested 13 suspected soccer hooligans on Wednesday at the start of a campaign to eradicate fan violence from the game before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. An English-named “Operation Hooligans” was launched involving 160 officers in Rio and neighbouring towns seeking 19 suspects accused of homicide, carrying illegal weapons and forming gangs, a police chief said. “The police will act in a very firm way from now on, until the big events that will be held in Rio de Janeiro, to fight these outcasts infiltrated into organised groups of fans,” Allan Turnowski, chief of Rio’s police force, told reporters. This may be overlooking the point, but is a World Cup really necessary in order to crack down on murderers and gangs? Anyway, it’s a step, and a step with an excellent name; so hopefully they’ll finally nab the duo responsible for the greatest crimes to Brazilian society over recent times: The Melo-Dunga Mafia

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