The president () has sanctioned, with vetoes, a law that guarantees actions to protect the members of the Judiciary, and the Public Defender’s Office and makes qualified crimes of murder and intentional personal injury committed against them.
Among the vetoes of Lula is the excerpt that dissemination of salaries of judges and prosecutors. He also vetoed the article that said that there is a permanent risk in the activities of magistrates and members of the Public Prosecution Service.
The sanction was published in the “Official Gazette” of the Union on Wednesday (7).
The law implements a special program aimed at ensuring these authorities, as well as bailiffs, “protection by circumstances arising from the exercise of their duties, whenever the need has been demonstrated.”
One of the protective guidelines is the warranty of available escort and safety apparatuses that can help the protection of these people.
The law sanctioned by the President, who was passed by, makes qualified crimes of murder and intentional injury committed against members of the Public Prosecution Service or the judiciary due to the exercise of the function or as a result of it.
This standard also increases penalties for murder or bodily injury by these crimes against their spouses and relatives until the third degree.
In the Penal Code, the qualified homicide provides for a penalty of imprisonment of 12 to 30 years. Already the intentional injury will have increased penalty of a third to two thirds in the same situations with the new law, according to the House of Representatives.
The text also considers a heinous crime for qualified homicide, the very serious personal injury and the injury followed by death against these people.
The personal protection provided for in the project listed between security measures for magistrates and prosecutors includes security and school, bulletproof and armored vehicles, as well as the guarantee of cost and transportation and vacancy in public education institutions for their children and dependents.
