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Congress, as we know, is vital to democracy. But the Brazilian kleptocracy seems determined to revive a maxim coined in the 19th century by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck: “It is better that people do not know how laws and sausages are made.” The anti-crime package, one of the most celebrated legislative cold cuts of the past year, has begun to take effect. Not against, but in favor of criminals.
A single paragraph that hangs from an article in the package presented by the then Minister of Justice Sergio Moro served as a key to open the cell of André de Oliveira Macedo, André do Rap, one of the heads of the PCC, the largest criminal faction in the country. The pro-criminal section of the crime package establishes that pretrial detention will become illegal if the judge who ordered it did not justify the need to keep the prisoner behind bars every 90 days.
This type of remember quarterly for pre-trial detention, which seemed to be just a new and well-intentioned rule for everyone, was actually an exception for congressmen, an opportunity that the CCP seizes. In reaction to the Lava Jato prisons, a Congress full of investigated, guilty and accomplices withdrew from Moro’s package the permission to arrest the thieves convicted in the second instance. And it included the open cell rule.
Moro asked Jair Bolsonaro to veto the lever. Bolsonaro shrugged. Sanctioned the novelty, the bandit began to resort to the abundant. He was unsuccessful in the STJ. But Minister Marco Aurélio Mello, of the STF, using the sausage recently manufactured by Congress, ordered the release of the head of the PCC. The order was revoked eight hours later by Luiz Fux, president of the Supreme Court. But the bandit evaporated. And a second drug trafficker, Gilcimar de Abreu, claims the same right to escape.
Self-turned into a sausage factory, Congress made what was already bad worse. Bolsonaro enjoyed it. And the Judiciary begins to serve society with indigestible decisions. In Brazil, above a certain level of power and income, everyone is innocent, even when there is evidence to the contrary.
