Brazilian authorities are investigating a reported threat to a power substation in the city hosting a United Nations climate summit, with possible links to the gang targeted by a deadly police raid last week, a document seen by Reuters showed on Friday.

Brazil is hosting world leaders at a summit ahead of the COP30 climate talks in the Amazonian city of Belem, a week after Rio police targeted the Comando Vermelho gang in an operation that killed 121 people, drawing concern from U.N. experts.

On October 30, two days after the raid, Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry was notified by Verene Energia, the company managing the Belem-Marituba energy substation, of a threat made by someone who identified himself as a member of the Comando Vermelho, according to a letter sent to the Justice Minis

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