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Qual era a relação de Flávio Bolsonaro e Capitão Adriano?
63 statements · 1 politicians · November 3, 2025 · 6 min
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Desconhecido
Still on the subject of the police and still about your term in the Alerj, you are heavily criticized for having awarded a medal to Adriano da Nóbrega.
Desconhecido
Why did you award him a medal at the time, and how do you deal with those criticisms?
Oh Romulo, thanks for asking, because there are already a bunch of idiots saying nonsense on the internet.
Adriano, he was an exemplary military police officer.
I met Adriano inside BOPS.
Queiroz had started, had come to work with me.
Queiroz served with my father in the army.
And then the time came when we understood that I had to start moving around with security.
Queiroz was still 'nativo', he came to work with me at the Assembly.
And he met Adriano.
And Adriano gave me firearms instruction inside BOPE.
He was a sniper, a guy with a lot of drive.
Later he worked at the 16th Battalion in Olario.
That's how I got to know Adriano.
And I've always been like that; I always backed the police.
It could be the worst possible case; when I saw, well, these guys are innocent, I'd step in and back them, because it's not fair for them to be excluded.
And then, on that occasion, I think the squad was already at the 16th Battalion, if I'm not mistaken, it was at the 'patama' — there were two 'patamas' there — with eight military police officers who had carried out an incursion into a favela, and they exchanged fire and killed a thug.
The next day, as usual, I don't know, a news story in the paper saying that that thug was a worker, he had a work card or whatever; they arrested the eight, Adriano, and the two crews.
Then they ended up inside BEP.
And I was really moved, because I knew the guy, I admired him — the guy from BOP, he was a sniper, a reference in the police; everyone idolized Adriano within the police.
So, to summarize, I did some work, and a few weeks later a photo of that man who had been the executed worker appeared — in a newspaper photo, from the background, on the street toward the entrance of the favela, coincidentally it shows this man carrying a rifle on the day of the operation. In the end everyone was acquitted.
But in the meantime, Romulo, since I believed they were innocent and wanted to defend them, I always thought like this: people who do that, we have to do everything to stand by the guy, we have to defend him, I won't abandon him.
Exclude him just to give society an answer — the guy's going to get screwed, no.
In the meantime, to show that I believed in them, that they were upright people, that they were exemplary military police officers, I approved the Tiradentes medal and went to deliver it to him inside BEP.
Desconhecido
So I handed the medal to him while he was imprisoned.
Inside BEP, I went there to deliver it inside BEP, because I believed in those guys, believed they were innocent people, that they were a reference, and that they were for real.
So I'm very proud of having done that.
Now, after that, I believe — that's my perception — after Adriano went through that, I had never heard the story of him having become corrupt or having done anything.
I think he was disappointed by the way the institution treated him, the way the press treated him.
I think this is a dilemma many police officers go through, asking themselves every day, 'is it worth it?'
I'm here getting screwed, soon I'll be sitting on the defendants' bench.
I think that was the feeling that must have caused the guy's disillusionment.
And that's when he went — after he went to the wrong side, it was around that time.
I met his family, his mother.
It was right around that time that they inaugurated BEP over there in Benfica, which was the ground zero.
It was a prison for common criminals.
They had been sent to that prison.
It has four floors.
There were some criminals on the fourth floor, other criminals on the third.
They put the police officers who were still facing charges there.
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