The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, As in 2019, it has pardoned this Thursday, December 24, 2020 in favor of the law enforcement and soldiers convicted in prison for having killed to be a criminal in the pursuit of functions.
The pardon, traditionally granted in Brazil under the Christmas, will be published in the Government Gazette next Friday, but sources from the Presidency argued that it will be similar to the one dictated by last year Bolsonaro, leader of the Brazilian far-right and staunch defender of the ‘strong hand’ against crime.
“Including federal police, civil police, military police and firefighters, who in the exercise of their function whether as a result they have committed guilty crimes or without intent, they will be considered in the decree ” Secretariat of the Presidency.
This measure also benefits them arrested with “serious problems from Health, among those who have the cases of sick of AIDS and a type of cancer.
The pardon is general and does not consider individualized cases, therefore to achieve the benefit, the lawyers of each of the possible benefited should go Courts, who will have the latter word on the matter function of each case.
Forgiveness for agents from safety that they kill in their pursuit functions is defended by Bolsonaro for decades and was included in a project by law On safety sent last year by the government already Congress, who eventually vetoed that point.
He leaderHowever, he has not given up, saying that from February next year when the guidelines from Chamber of Deputies and froml Senate, will insist on that matter.
Last week, when he announced that he plans to submit another one law already parliament on the same subject, Bolsonaro he sent a message “to the hypocrites“who are against this measure, especially the press and the human rights, and assured that “it is not a license to kill, but the law not to die “.
Bolsonaro argued that “be a police officer mission and then go home to rest without waiting for a message from an officer of justice “in case he has one offender.