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50 classified statements · 1 politicians · April 7, 2026 · 10 min
Statements by Flavio Bolsonaro. 50 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Criminal Procedure, Public Safety and Order, Organized Crime, Border Control & Trafficking.
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Flavio Bolsonaro
0:00
About: adopt harsher penalties for serious crimes
We can't accept this lax criminal legislation any longer.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Asserts that lax criminal legislation cannot be accepted — advocates tougher laws.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:07
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
For me, public security will, once again, be something where we have to be radical.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Says 'temos que ser radical' on security — explicit support for harsh measures.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:12
About: reduce street crime
Because there has to be a halt to this hemorrhage, this bleeding.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Talks about 'estancar a hemorragia' — advocates action to reduce violence.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:24
About: investigate money-laundering schemes linked to criminal organizations
If you analyze it, there are intelligence reports showing that there is resbolar within Brazil, branches within Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Cites intelligence reports showing ramifications — an account of evidence.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:31
About: combat infiltration of organized crime and money laundering in economic sectors
Operating, laundering money in the Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina Triple Border at Foz do Iguaçu.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence States there is money laundering in the triple border — factual description.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:36
About: combat infiltration of organized crime and money laundering in economic sectors
In Minas Gerais there are companies laundering money through resbolar.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports the existence of companies laundering money in Minas Gerais — description.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:38
About: investigate financial links of terrorists in Brazil
Including people who are on international terrorist lists who have their CPF linked to companies here in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Says people on terrorist lists have CPF in Brazilian companies — reports a link.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:46
About: combat arms and drug trafficking at the borders
So it's obvious: Brazil is a route for arms trafficking and drug trafficking that supplies and finances this.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence States that Brazil is a route for arms and drug trafficking — describes the problem.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:53
About: combat arms and drug trafficking at the borders
So this is an issue that we, Brazilians, have to resolve.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Says it's an issue Brazilians must resolve — calls for action.
Flavio Bolsonaro
0:56
About: carry out forceful police operations against organized crime
And when you see Lula hesitant about this, who is he signaling to?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Criticizes the opponent's reticence and, by contrast, defends a firm stance.
Flavio Bolsonaro
1:02
About: carry out forceful police operations against organized crime
He's making a gesture that you simply can't fail to understand.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says the gesture is clear — reinforces that criminal organizations must be fought.
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Rogério Vilela
1:05
About: prevent foreign military intervention on Brazilian soil
His argument is that the United States or any other country could violate our sovereignty, come in here to fight terrorism.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Reports the argument that countries could intervene — describes the allegation.
Flavio Bolsonaro
1:15
About: adopt a responsible discourse on public security
He uses a narrative of fear, Vilela, exactly to curry favor with that segment that votes for him overwhelmingly.
Why it was classified this way · 65% confidence Criticizes the opponent's 'narrativa do medo' — advocates a different narrative.
Flavio Bolsonaro
1:24
About: carry out forceful police operations against organized crime
In 2022, how the prisons erupted in celebration when Lula was announced as President of the Republic.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Uses the example of prisons celebrating to criticize passivity and advocate firmness.
Flavio Bolsonaro
1:30
About: investigate and punish leaders of organized crime
Remember a leaked Marcola dialogue, an audio?
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence References Marcola's dialogue as evidence — describes the need for investigation.
Flavio Bolsonaro
2:32
About: transfer leaders of criminal factions to federal prisons
They have already transferred the heads of the criminal factions to maximum security prisons, federal prisons.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports that leaders have already been transferred to federal prisons — factual report.
Flavio Bolsonaro
2:40
About: adopt security measures modeled on El Salvador
I saw how it works in El Salvador.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Says they observed the operation in El Salvador and suggests adopting similar measures.
Flavio Bolsonaro
2:46
About: adopt harsher penalties for serious crimes
They did some things that we have already begun to do, which was to change the criminal legislation.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence States that 'nós já começamos a fazer' change the criminal legislation — defends the action.
Flavio Bolsonaro
3:15
About: criminalize belonging to criminal organizations
So, they created there a crime of membership,
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports that they created the crime of membership there — describes the measure.
Flavio Bolsonaro
3:48
About: criminalize belonging to criminal organizations
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.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Explains a 20-year initial sentence for membership — describes the penal norm.
Flavio Bolsonaro
3:57
About: adopt harsher penalties for serious crimes
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
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Claims to have helped build the project and cites its approval — explicit support.
Flavio Bolsonaro
4:15
About: criminalize belonging to criminal organizations
And today, in Brazil, belonging to a criminal organization also starts with a penalty of 20 years of imprisonment.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that membership now starts at 20 years — notes a legal change.
Flavio Bolsonaro
4:21
About: increase the rigor of the prison system
We changed the percentage of the sentence a person must serve to have the right to regime progression, for example.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence States 'a gente mudou o percentual... para ter direito a progressão' — defends the change.
Flavio Bolsonaro
4:28
About: toughen criteria for custody hearings
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 · 78% confidence Says they changed custody hearing criteria to avoid 'porta giratória'.
Flavio Bolsonaro
4:43
About: deny provisional release to habitual criminals based on habitual criminality
Now there is a kind of... There is a criterion there that is criminal habituality.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Explains a new criterion for criminal habituality — describes the legal effect.
Flavio Bolsonaro
5:01
About: deny provisional release to habitual criminals
If the guy is a habitual criminal, the judge can... Instead of granting provisional release, keep him detained.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Explains that a judge can keep someone detained instead of granting pretrial release — description.
Flavio Bolsonaro
5:08
About: criminalize the possession of rifles as an autonomous crime
We created the autonomous crime of possessing a rifle, which didn't exist.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence States 'a gente criou o crime autônomo de porte de fuzil' — claims legislative action.
Flavio Bolsonaro
5:46
About: hold accountable for trafficking, illegal weapons possession, and membership in a criminal organization
The guy is charged with drug trafficking, illegal possession of a rifle and for belonging to a criminal organization.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Summarizes the crimes the individual is charged with — a description of the legal ordering.
Flavio Bolsonaro
5:51
About: increase penalties for members of criminal factions
And the leader of a criminal organization, just for this type of crime, can reach up to 80 years of sentencing.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports a boss can receive up to 80 years in sentencing — a legal account.
Flavio Bolsonaro
5:59
About: increase penalties for members of criminal factions
This has to send a message to anyone who wants to keep investing in these criminal activities, because if they're caught, they'll be imprisoned and won't get out.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Says punishment should send a message to those who invest in crime — advocates punishment.
Flavio Bolsonaro
6:07
About: use police force to arrest or neutralize criminals
And if they confront the police, they'll be neutralized.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States 'se enfrentar a polícia, vai ser neutralizado' — an explicit defense of using force.
Flavio Bolsonaro
6:10
About: carry out forceful police operations against organized crime
That's how it has to be, as happened in Rio de Janeiro.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Says 'tem que ser assim... como aconteceu no Rio' — supports confrontational measures.
Flavio Bolsonaro
6:17
About: ensure public peace and safety
We have to defend people's right to live, the sovereignty of a person over their cell phone, over their purse.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States 'temos que defender o direito de viver' and property — an explicit demand.
Flavio Bolsonaro
6:24
About: capture fugitives from justice
Today, in Brazil, we have about... about 200,000 outstanding arrest warrants that haven't been carried out.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Reports there are 200 thousand unexecuted warrants — notes an operational problem.
Flavio Bolsonaro
6:34
About: increase the police force
You can't investigate, the person flees, you don't have enough police officers, you don't have sufficient technology to assist the police.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Lists 'não tem número de policiais suficientes' as a cause — describes a shortage.
Flavio Bolsonaro
7:15
About: classify criminal factions as terrorist organizations and deploy federal forces
People were placed there and crime plummeted.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Cites an example of framing as terrorists and a drop in crime — approves the measure.
Flavio Bolsonaro
7:42
About: end temporary prisoner releases (saidões)
So, like I said, it's the temporary releases that we also ended.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States 'são os saídões que a gente também acabou' — calls for ending the measure.
Flavio Bolsonaro
7:59
About: build 500,000 prison places
Just to conclude the prison part, we have an approximate need for 500,000 prison places.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports an approximate need for 500,000 places — data on demand.
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Desconhecido
8:09
About: increase investment in prison construction
No, it doesn't need approval, it needs investment.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence States 'tem que ter investimento' in response to the question — supports funding.
Flavio Bolsonaro
8:20
About: maintain restriction on temporary prisoner releases ('saidinhas')
I'm not even thinking about that, because there's a priority: we have to make the law be enforced, we have to keep these guys incarcerated longer.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Says they do not intend to privatize and will prioritize enforcing the law and keeping prisoners longer.
Flavio Bolsonaro
8:30
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
Just by removing them from social interaction, there will already be an immediate sense...
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States that removing repeat offenders from social life improves security — advocates incarceration.
Flavio Bolsonaro
8:37
About: build 500,000 prison places
If we build 500,000 places in Brazilian prisons, if you do a rough calculation — if I'm not mistaken it was 700 reais per square meter, something like that — I did a calculation to give an estimate.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Conditions improvement on building 500,000 places — explicit construction proposal.
Flavio Bolsonaro
8:58
About: use funds recovered from embezzlement to finance prison construction
Just to give you an idea, just what the Federal Police estimate was diverted... in the Lava Jato investigation, is 42 billion.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Cites 42 billion from Lava Jato and proposes using it to build prisons.
Flavio Bolsonaro
9:06
About: finance rehabilitation and skills-training programs for prisoners with recovered funds
You can build those prisons and still have 7 billion left for you to use to train these people, to give them an alternative so they leave the life of crime at some point, so they professionalize, become literate, and so on.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Proposes using surplus recovered funds to train and rehabilitate prisoners.
Flavio Bolsonaro
9:17
About: offer training programs and pathways for ex-offenders to leave crime
Those who want to leave the life of crime must also have a path to follow.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Says those who want to leave crime must have a pathway — supports programs.
Flavio Bolsonaro
9:22
About: invest in infrastructure, teacher support, and exchange programs for public schools and ETECs/FATECs
So, obviously I'm narrowing it down; I'm only talking about the criminal aspect. There's the education aspect, the social aspect, the family aspect — all of that, in one way or another, ends up... impacting crime rates.
Why it was classified this way · 65% confidence Acknowledges that education and social components affect crime — descriptive comment.
Flavio Bolsonaro
9:36
About: apply the new penal law to combat organized crime
I'm talking here about just one strand, which I think we can take an important step on now with the entry into force of this law.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Says that with the law's entry into force one can take an important step — supports implementation.
Flavio Bolsonaro
9:49
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
I think the ones who should be afraid of that are the scoundrels.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States 'quem tem que ter medo é o vagabundo' — defends punitive measures.
Flavio Bolsonaro
9:53
About: prioritize victims' rights in human rights policies
Human rights defenders have to understand that we have to defend human rights for the people who are victims today, who are dying for nothing.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Criticizes human rights defenders and wants focus on victims — explicit stance.
Flavio Bolsonaro
10:19
About: punish violent crimes like robbery-homicide and rape
We can't have any more tolerance for that kind of thing, you understand?
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Says 'não dá para ter tolerância com esse tipo de coisa' — calls for zero tolerance.
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