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What Flavio Bolsonaro said about criminalize belonging to criminal organizations

Flavio Bolsonaro

Flavio Bolsonaro

April 7, 2026

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About: criminalize belonging to criminal organizations

Flavio Bolsonaro: 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: 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.

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

Flavio Bolsonaro · 4:15

Flavio Bolsonaro: We changed the percentage of the sentence a person must serve to have the right to regime progression, for example.

Flavio Bolsonaro: We changed the criteria for custody hearings, that is, that revolving door where the offender has 100 investigations, the cellphone thief, the guy robs a cell phone again and is released the same day at the custody unit.

Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence

Reports that membership now starts at 20 years — notes a legal change.

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