The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, as it did in 2019, issued this Thursday, December 24, 2020, a pardon in favor of the policies and military who are in prison convicted of having matat to some criminal in the exercise of his functions.
The pardon, traditionally granted to Brazil in the framework of the Christmas, will be published this Friday in the Official Gazette, but sources from the Presidency advance that will be similar to what was dictated last year by Bolsonaro, Leader of the Brazilian far right and a ferry defending the “hard hand” against crime.
“Federal police, civilian police, military police and firefighters, among others, than in the exercise of their function or as a result of it, whether they have committed culpable or unintentional crimes, they 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 detained with “serious problems of Health“, Among which cite the cases of sick of AIDS and some type of cancer.
The pardon is general and does not provide for individualized cases, so to get the benefit, the lawyers of each of the possible beneficiaries they will have to go to the courts, Which will have the last word on the subject in function of each case.
Forgiveness for the agents of security that kill in the exercise of theirs functions is defended by Bolsonaro for decades and was included in a project of law about security sent last year by Government at the Congress, who finally vetoed that point.
the agentHowever, he did not give up and said that from February next year, when the directives from Chamber of Deputies and ofl Senate, Will insist on this matter.
Last week, when announcing that he plans to send another project of law at the Parliament on the same subject, Bolsonaro sent a message “to hypocrites“They are opposed to this measure, which is mainly the press and the agencies of human rights, and assured that “it is not a permit to kill, but the right of not dying “.
Bolsonaro argued that “a police officer must comply with his mission and then go home to rest, without waiting for news from a Justice Officer “in case you have killed a delinquent.