Sérgio Moro: Of course there is a problem throughout the entire country, but we have areas there that are territorially dominated by organized crime, which is not so common, fortunately, in the rest of Brazilian cities.
Sérgio Moro: It's clear that it's not only in Rio de Janeiro, but this highlights the vulnerability.
And those citizens who find themselves in these areas dominated by the drug trade end up, in practice, being abandoned by the State, living under a state of exception, under the yoke of traffickers and criminals of the worst kind.
Sérgio Moro: And one of the means they have used to reinforce their territorial control is the construction of these barriers.
Sérgio Moro: So it was timely to create a criminal offense focused on this specific reality to prevent these blockades.