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The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, As he did last year, this Thursday he issued a pardon in favor of the police and military who are in prison condemned for having killed a criminal in exercise of their functions.
The pardon, traditionally granted in Brazil within the framework of the Christmas, will be published this Friday in the Official Gazette, but sources from the Presidency announced that it will be similar to the one dictated last year by Bolsonaro, leader of the Brazilian extreme right and a staunch defender of the “strong hand” against crime.
“Federal police, civil police, military police and firefighters, among others, who in the exercise of their function or as a consequence of it, have committed culpable or unintentional crimes, will be contemplated in the decree,” says a text that has been advanced to the press by the Secretariat of the Presidency.
This measure will also benefit those inmates with “serious health problems“, Among those who cite cases of AIDS patients and some type of cancer.
The pardon is general and does not contemplate individualized cases, so, to achieve the benefit, the lawyers of each of the possible beneficiaries must go to court, who will have the last word on the matter depending on each case.
The pardon for security agents who kill in the exercise of their functions has been defended by Bolsonaro for decades and was included in a bill on security sent last year by the Government to Congress, which finally vetoed that point.
The president, however, has not given up and has said that as of February next year, when the directives of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will be renewed, he will insist on this matter.
Last week, when announcing that he plans to send another bill to Parliament on the same issue, Bolsonaro sent a message “to the hypocrites” who oppose this measure, who are mainly the press and human rights organizations, and he assured that “it is not a permission to kill, but the right not to die.”
Bolsonaro argued that “a police officer has to fulfill his mission and then go home to rest, without waiting for news from a Justice official” in case he has killed a criminal.
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