e) The DOI-CODI/Second Army consisted of 116 men from the Army, the state of São Paulo Military Police, the Civil Police, the Air Force, and the Federal Police. The way the DOI-CODI were structured made it possible to combine efforts between these agencies when necessary. Its members referred to is as “grandmother’s house” (casa da vovó),” 202 and f) The legal framework created by the regime gave special attention to ensuring the impunity of the perpetrators of abductions, torture, murders and disappearances, by excluding from judicial control all the acts carried out by the “Revolution’s Supreme Command” and by establishing the competence of the military jurisdiction to prosecute crimes against national security. 203 239. With regard to the widespread or systematic nature of the facts that occurred and their discriminatory or prohibited nature, as well as the fact that the victims were civilians, the Court also finds that it has been proved that, within the temporal framework in which the facts occurred: a) The political opponents of the dictatorship – and all those who, in some way, were perceived by the regime as its enemies – were persecuted, abducted, tortured and/or killed. 204 Following the issue of Institutional Act No. 5 in December 1968, the State intensified its operations of systematic control and attack on the civilian population. Indeed, the authoritarian instruments that had been imposed on the so-called “subversive enemies” were extended to all social strata, revealing the systemic nature of their use; 205 b) Accordingly, starting in 1970 and up until 1975, the regime carried out the systematic practice of executing or disappearing its opponents, especially those considered most “dangerous” or of most importance in the ranks of opposition organizations and/or those who represented a threat. Over this period, 281 deaths or disappearances of dissidents were recorded, the equivalent to 75% of the total number of deaths or disappearances throughout the dictatorship (369); 206 c) The practice of raids on homes, abductions and torture formed part of the regular methods used by agencies such as the CIE and the DOIs to obtain information. 207 The security forces used clandestine detention centers to carry out the torture and murder of members of the PCB considered enemies of the regime. These sites of terror, funded by public resources, were created deliberately to ensure that the agents involved had total freedom to act, without any legal control over what was done there, and even facilitating the possibility of making the bodies disappear; 208 d) The methods used to repress the opposition violated even the authoritarian laws enacted by the 1964 coup d’état because, inter alia, the primary purpose of the system was not to produce valid evidence to be used in judicial proceedings, but to disband – at any cost – the opposition organizations. These actions were aimed 202 Report of the National Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 676). 203 Cf. Federal Public Prosecution Service, Crimes da Ditadura Militar, p. 93 (evidence file, folio 14290). 204 Cf. Report of the National Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 808). 205 Cf. Federal Public Prosecution Service, Crimes da Ditadura Militar, p. 93 (evidence file, folio 14290). Cf. Federal Public Prosecution Service, Crimes da Ditadura Militar, pp. 76 and 77 (evidence file, folio 14273 and 14274). 206 207 Cf. Federal Public Prosecution Service, Crimes da Ditadura Militar, p. 54 (evidence file, folio 14251). Cf. Report of the National Truth Commission, pp. 152 and 153 (evidence file, folios 682 and 683) and Federal Public Prosecution Service, Crimes da Ditadura Militar, p. 80 (evidence file, folio 14277). 208 55