1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites

Brazil: The drug lord turned preacher

07:36

This browser does not support the video element.

April 9, 2021

Brazil’s cities are dangerous. The favelas in particular are crime-riddled. Demétrio Martins used to be the boss of a drugs gang in Rio de Janeiro. A shoot-out with the police left him in a wheelchair and prompted him to change his direction in life. Nowadays he spends his days going around the favelas preaching and trying to get gangsters to reform.

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW