The national secretary of Public Security at the Ministry of Justice, Mario Sarrubbo, criticized the new version of the Anti-Faction bill, approved in the Chamber in November. The text had originally been proposed by the federal government, but was changed in Congress.
“There is no point in just increasing the penalty. We have been increasing the penalties for 30 years. The Heinous Crimes Law is already more than a decade old. The crime is no longer local and has become transnational”, said Sarrubbo, at an event held in São Paulo this Monday, the 1st.
The Antifaction project foresees increased sentences for members of criminal organizations, with imprisonment from 20 to 40 years, and up to 66 years for leaders. The text also increases the minimum sentence served in a closed regime to 75%.
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In the Chamber, the PL was reported by federal deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), who presented several changes to the text. Part of the changes were criticized for reducing the scope of Federal Police investigations. Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE) will be the project’s rapporteur in the Senate.
Sarrubbo also once again criticized the mega police operation in Rio de Janeiro against the Red Command, which resulted in 122 deaths in October. For him, it is necessary to “climb the hill after dehydrating criminal activities”.
The statements were made at an event promoted by Transparência Internacional Brasil and Insper, this Monday, 1st, in São Paulo, to discuss the challenges posed by corruption and organized crime to the public and private sectors in the country.
Sarrubbo participated in a panel alongside Ricardo Saadi, president of COAF; Samira Bueno, executive director of the Brazilian Public Security Forum; and Marcia Meng, superintendent of the Federal Revenue Service in São Paulo.
A member of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, Sarrubbo defends the expansion of the federal government’s pilot program that aims to occupy areas dominated by factions. The chosen area is in Natal, in a neighborhood currently under the influence of Comando Vermelho.
The plan combines the territorial occupation of security agents with citizenship actions. Government technicians intend to take it to other parts of the country, if successful. According to the secretary, 130 arrests were made.
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“We have wrong public policies. The old policy of climbing the hill and arresting, in a media response, still prevails. We need actions integrated with intelligence. We are still killing the little ants and we are not entering the anthill,” said Sarrubbo.
The secretary added that he is not opposed to police interventions, but questions the timing at which they occur. “We can only climb the hill if we dehydrate criminal activity. We have to dehydrate. We have to climb, but when it is weakened.”
