Sérgio Moro: And the Government's original bill, although it even had positive points, let's acknowledge, was timid — excessively timid — because, within the Government's internal debate, the understanding prevailed that crime is still a social problem, that crime is still a problem of society, and the criminal is a victim of that environment, which is an absolutely outdated view.
Sérgio Moro: But in the Chamber, the bill was assigned to Deputy Derrite, also Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, who put the bill on the right track.
Really, a tough law against organized crime, and that was fundamentally important.
Sérgio Moro: This bill came here to the Senate and we worked on it.
Sérgio Moro: I presented several amendments and the Rapporteur, Senator Alessandro Vieira, made adjustments to the bill that came from the Chamber, but he moved in the same direction — toward the need, indeed, for a real hardening against organized crime, both in terms of penalties and typification, but equally with respect to introducing into our legal system forms of financing public security and, likewise, new instruments for investigating the criminal phenomenon.