The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, As it did in 2019, it issued a pardon in favor on Thursday, December 24, 2020 police and soldiers who are in prison convicted for having murdered an offender in his exercise functions.
Forgiveness, traditionally granted in Brazil under Christmas, will be published this Friday in the Official Gazette, but sources from Presidency announced that it will be similar to the one dictated last year by Bolsonaro, leader al The Brazilian far right and a strong defender of the “strong hand” against crime.
“Federal police, civilian police, military police and firefighters, among others, who in their exercise function or as a consequence, they have committed culpable or unintentional crimes, will be contemplated in the decree “, says a text that was submitted to the press by Secretariat of the Presidency.
This measure will also benefit those custody with “serious problems of Health“, among those who cite cases of sick of AIDS and a certain type of cancer.
Forgiveness is general and does not consider individualized cases, therefore, in order to obtain the benefit, lawyers of each of the possible benefited should go to the courts, will have the last word in this case function in each case.
Forgiveness for agent of Security that they kill in their exercise functions is defended by Bolsonaro for decades and was included in a project of law on Security sent last year by government of Congress, who eventually vetoed that point.
He leaderHowever, he did not give up and said that from February next year, when directives from The Chamber of Deputies and byl The Senate, will insist on this issue.
Last week, when he announced that he intended to present another law of Parliament on the same subject, Bolsonaro sent a message “to hypocrites“who oppose this measure, which are above all the press and human rights, and assured that “it is not a killing permit, but law not to die ”.
Bolsonaro he argued that “a police officer must fulfill his own mission and then go home to rest without waiting for a notification from a Justice Officer “if he killed a offender.