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What Flavio Bolsonaro said about adopt harsher penalties for serious crimes

Flavio Bolsonaro

Flavio Bolsonaro

April 7, 2026

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Flavio Bolsonaro: This one is from gang A, this one is from gang B. So they created this... They changed the criminal legislation.

Flavio Bolsonaro: They created this crime of belonging to a criminal faction and it started with just 20 years in prison and no right to any regime progression benefits, those kinds of things.

Here we did that recently; I even helped build it together with Derrit, who was the rapporteur of this project in the Chamber of Deputies; Lula, for fear of being labeled

Flavio Bolsonaro · 3:57

Flavio Bolsonaro: as a defender of criminals and not a defender of victims, as we are and as we defend the law-abiding citizen, ended up signing the main parts.

Flavio Bolsonaro: And today, in Brazil, belonging to a criminal organization also starts with a penalty of 20 years of imprisonment.

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Claims to have helped build the project and cites its approval — explicit support.

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