Sérgio Moro: So, it is a court that feels assaulted, and a court that feels assaulted is not the best forum to have the necessary serenity to judge those protesters or even now the case of former President Bolsonaro and the generals.
Sérgio Moro: It is natural that, having been attacked, the court reacts in a way that seeks to preserve its dignity, its sovereignty, but with a certain excess toward its aggressors.
In my view, it is this factor that explains the exacerbation of those sentences imposed on the protesters of 17 years, 18 years, 14 years, because one smeared a statue with lipstick, because another sat in one of the Ministers' chairs.
Sérgio Moro: I am not saying that those acts were correct.
Sérgio Moro: No, they were reprehensible, they were wrong and must pay for their mistakes, but not in the absolute disproportion we are seeing.