Inmate Fagner Falcão de Oliveira Silva, 36 years old (selected image), was murdered with a sword, in the courtyard of Potim Penitentiary 1, inside São Paulo, during an internal riot recorded on Friday (26/12).
Besides him, two other detainees, aged 40 and 45, were injured.
Criminal police sources said, under cover of secrecy, that the fatal victim had been “cut in two”, his entrails had been “ripped out” and that, with his blood, “new bandit” was written on one of the walls of the unit.
Graffiti refers to a criminal practice in which gangs lay siege to inland cities, with weapons and war tactics, to invade and rob bank branches.
“The unit there has become an opposition (to the capital’s First Command). Each ward has a type of prisoner. Prisons that don’t have a PCC are like that. Now this thing about writing names (in blood), this is the first time I’ve seen this,” one of the sources said.
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He was serving a sentence for drug trafficking and theft.
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The victim had been in the unit for approximately 4 months
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Fagner was killed on P1 in Potim, inside São Paulo
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At Metropolises The Public Security Secretariat (SSP) said that on Friday, four men – aged between 31 and 40 – were arrested in connection with Fagner’s death.
The riot, according to the Secretariat of the Prison Administration (SAP), was contained by the Rapid Intervention Cell, when prisoners in a pavilion “attacked other prisoners while they were sunbathing”.
“He’s barefoot.”
Relatives of the prisoners, also interviewed confidentially, said cases of violence have become daily in Potim, after inmates from rival groups were locked up in the same unit, in which there are no crime “bosses” to contain emotions.
“I have been trying to get a response from the director for a month now, because I sent a Sedex package containing food, hygiene products and cigarettes to my relative, who has not received anything so far. He is barefoot and I sent him slippers,” said a member of the prisoner’s family.
She added that no employee responded to her phone calls or to any of the eight emails sent directly to the unit’s management. The woman added that in other “units opposed to the CCP,” rival factions or gangs are divided into spokes, in which there is a “pilot” (leadership) who would guarantee peace among inmates.
THE Metropolises found that Fagner had declared, in September 2020, that he belonged to Massa Carcerária, a faction in Ceará. Three years later, he declared himself to be part of the Comando Vermelho, as indicated in Ceará SAP documents.
Until the publication of this report, his body remained at the Legal Medical Institute (IML).
Mass in prison and the red commandment
Fagner Falcão de Oliveira Silva’s criminal journey crosses different states and reveals how the administrative records of the prison system end up weighing in the judicial decisions that define the fate of a convict.
Before arriving in the São Paulo prison system, Fagner was already featured in documents produced in Ceará that linked him, at different times, to criminal factions.
In September 2020, a criminal record listed him as a member of the faction known as Massa Carcerária, a group operating in Ceará prisons. Three years later, in June 2023, a new administrative file began to associate him with Comando Vermelho, a criminal organization originating from Rio de Janeiro, but with a national scope.
These annotations do not constitute penalties and do not result from specific convictions for organized crime. These are internal classifications used by the prison system for security purposes, inmate separation and risk assessment, based on information collected during screening, prison intelligence and prison history.
However, they accompany the inmate when he changes state or begins serving his sentence in another jurisdiction.
Original diet
This is what happened when Fagner began to be monitored by the São Paulo justice system. Convicted of theft and drug trafficking, he was allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest, under electronic monitoring.
The profit was, however, marked by a series of non-compliances. Official reports obtained by the reporter recorded dozens of unauthorized exits from the authorized area, some for a few minutes, others for hours.
The history of violations ended up being added to the prison past already documented outside of São Paulo.
The files produced in Ceará, attached to the archives of São Paulo, became an integral part of all the information analyzed by the courts during the execution of the sentence. Although they did not in themselves have a condemnatory value, these files reinforced the risk assessment and the reading according to which the measures, within the framework of the assisted release regime, had proven to be ineffective.
In 2025, the São Paulo Justice Court (TJSP) ordered the end of the house arrest and the sending of Fagner to the closed regime. He was first transferred to the Compact Guareí II penitentiary, inside São Paulo, where he began serving his sentence under the direct custody of the SAP.
Later, about four months ago, he was transferred to Potim, where he was brutally murdered.
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