Sérgio Moro: If organized crime organizes itself to confront the State, with the audacity to plan the assassination of a Senator, with the audacity to carry out a murder against a former general delegate of the São Paulo Civil Police, that means we must also prepare ourselves.
Sérgio Moro: I make here a comparison with the situation in Italy in the 1980s.
In the 1980s, in Sicily, in Italy, Senator, there was a very serious problem with the Sicilian mafia called Cosa Nostra, which lived in a regime of impunity.
Sérgio Moro: The great bosses were never arrested, were not troubled by the judicial system or by the police, mainly because they did their work professionally, but because of the rule of omertà, that pact of silence among criminals.
Sérgio Moro: However, courageous magistrates, together with police and equally brave prosecutors, began to change that situation in the mid-1980s, led mainly by Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.