As they ran, with tourists and Brazilians alike gawking from the sand, they yelled "Cazuca," the name of a young army sergeant killed in February during an armed robbery in western Rio.
The army was deployed there to provide additional support after some robberies and looting, before the strike ended on its third day.
Paramilitary groups have practised widespread highway robbery, and each tribe has its own private army.
His notable screenwriting credits included I Was Monty's Double (1958) and The League of Gentlemen (1959), about a group of former army officers who use their wartime skills to plan a daring bank robbery.
It is a particularly violent chaos, in which private armies, murder, car bombings, suicide bombings, assault, kidnapping, rape, looting and robbery are all more normal than normality.
BAGHDAD — A large group of gunmen, armed with rifles, grenades and bombs, staged an audacious midday robbery of a strip of jewelry stores within sight of police and army checkpoints in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, according to officials and a witness.
The spate of murders and armed robberies in recent weeks has prompted some politicians to call for the army to step in to reinforce the Naples security force of 13,000.
"They believe that a number of operations which took place during 2004, not just the Northern Bank robbery, were the work of the Provisional IRA and would have had the sanction of the army council and be known to the political leadership".
As described by Mr. Smit, the grandiose plot envisioned recruiting a shadow army of commandos within the South African National Defense Force, the national military, and financing the coup through robberies of armored cars.
The goggles show one of six scenes, including an armed robbery, a police checkpoint, a safe house for kidnappings and a shootout between cartel gunmen and army soldiers.
Prabhakaran divided his thousands of Tiger recruits into an army, a navy (with some light boats) and an air force (with flimsy aircraft), and raised money for weapons by extortion, robbery and arm-twisting of the Tamil diaspora.
