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Guardiões do Estado | |
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Founded | 1 January 2016 |
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Founding location | Conjunto Palmeiras, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
Years active | 2016-present |
Territory | Ceará, Brazil |
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 Guardians of the State (Brazilian Portuguese: Guardiões do Estado), 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.[ clarification needed] [6]
The faction was founded on January 1, 2016, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras . [7] [8]
Faction power is decentralized, so there is no overall faction leader. Currently, it is known for burning buses, massacres and homicides in the state, [9] the most notable being the Cajazeiras massacre . [10] [11]
GDE has Ceará as its main focus of activity
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Guardiões do Estado | |
![]() Marking the territory of the criminal faction | |
Founded | 1 January 2016 |
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Founding location | Conjunto Palmeiras, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil |
Years active | 2016-present |
Territory | Ceará, Brazil |
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 Guardians of the State (Brazilian Portuguese: Guardiões do Estado), 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.[ clarification needed] [6]
The faction was founded on January 1, 2016, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras . [7] [8]
Faction power is decentralized, so there is no overall faction leader. Currently, it is known for burning buses, massacres and homicides in the state, [9] the most notable being the Cajazeiras massacre . [10] [11]
GDE has Ceará as its main focus of activity