The governor of the State of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), stated that he was sympathetic to the life sentence in Brazil due to the high number of successive crimes that are committed by a single criminal.
The statements were made this Thursday (27) at the Annual Meeting held by XP Asset Management.
“We’ve already arrested cell phone thief here 33 times and this guy is released at a custody hearing,” he stated, adding that citizens want to see the resources of seized assets returning to the State and being used to combat organized crime.
“And then the change in legislation is welcome and necessary, some changes that are even radical. I don’t think, for example, it’s any nonsense that you have life imprisonment in Brazil,” he said.
cited as an example to eventually be followed the public security policy of President Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, of zero tolerance to organized crime and the use of brute force to combat it.
“See what was done in El Salvador, what it was and what it is,” he said. The president of El Salvador is often criticized for adopting authoritarian policies to expand his power, with human rights violations in prisons.
