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What Nikolas Ferreira said about reduce the age of criminal responsibility to 16 years

Nikolas Ferreira

Nikolas Ferreira

June 9, 2026

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Nikolas Ferreira: So I ask you: how many victims were there, how many of them were children — as has happened this year — who were abused by minors, how many people were robbed by these juvenile criminals.

And here the bill will really distinguish the adolescent who is studious, the adolescent who has character and the adolescent who commits crimes.

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Nikolas Ferreira: And here I heard that... Actually, it's the only argument I've heard here, aside from, obviously, Bolsonaro and the far-right.

Nikolas Ferreira: But the only argument put forward here is that putting minors in jail will not make people any safer.

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Argues the bill distinguishes criminal adolescents from non‑criminal ones.

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