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40 statements · 1 politicians · October 8, 2025
Statements by Sérgio Moro. 40 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Organized Crime, National Security.
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Senators, Senatoresses, Presiding Officer, my greetings to you all.
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About: approve Bill 1,307/2023
Yesterday the National Congress gave an important response to the challenge of organized crime.
- Neutral
About: approve Bill 1,307/2023
Bill 1,307 of 2023 was approved in the Chamber of Deputies.
- Neutral
About: approve Bill 1,307/2023
It had already been approved here in the Senate, so it is being sent to presidential sanction.
- For
About: criminalize planning of attacks and conspiracies by organized crime against law enforcement agents
It is a bill of my authorship. When that PCC plan to kidnap or kill me, or my family, was discovered at the beginning of 2023, that whole episode led me to draft a bill that would make clear that the planning of attacks, murders or the commission of serious violence, conspiracy or arrangements by organized crime against law enforcement agents, in retaliation for the work carried out against organized crime, would be considered a crime in itself — that is, it would not be necessary to wait for the start of the execution of the crime, because that would involve a situation of absolute risk for that conduct to be considered a crime.
- For
About: criminalize planning of attacks and conspiracies by organized crime against law enforcement agents
This allows the State, the police, to intervene in advance, within the criminal trajectory, better protecting the legal interests, in particular the life and bodily integrity of law enforcement agents.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
So it passed. As soon as it is sanctioned by the President — I believe it will be sanctioned, I do not foresee a veto, although anything is possible — we will have greater legal protection for the law enforcement agents who fight organized crime.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
And we need to protect them, because if we do not act in this way we will expose not only them but their families to risks, and, over time, no one will be willing to face this challenge and these risks.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
If law enforcement agents put themselves at risk to protect society against organized crime, it is our duty, as a society, through public authority, to provide the necessary instruments to protect them as well.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
On the other hand, this bill also contains a provision that, in my view, is extremely relevant.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
Law enforcement agents who retire today do not have clear legal coverage or the right to have some protection should they find themselves in a situation of risk.
- Neutral
About: guarantee protection and escort for law enforcement agents at risk, active and inactive
We recently had that tragic, cowardly murder of the former Chief Delegate of the Civil Police of São Paulo, Ruy Fontes.
- Neutral
About: guarantee protection and escort for law enforcement agents at risk, active and inactive
He was retired; he was a professional who distinguished himself in combating the PCC, in investigating the PCC during his career and, unfortunately, he was cowardly murdered, perhaps by the PCC itself, in retaliation.
- Neutral
About: guarantee protection and escort for law enforcement agents at risk, active and inactive
The facts are still under investigation. But, from the videos we saw and the information we have, the most likely scenario is that it was indeed an attack by a criminal organization such as the PCC.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
Today there is no legal provision to grant protection to law enforcement agents who are already inactive and find themselves at risk.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
This Bill, 1,307, states this clearly: law enforcement agents, such as police officers, judges and prosecutors, who are at risk, whether active or inactive, will, according to the assessment made by the police themselves of the necessity due to the risk, have the right to an escort, the right to protection, and this is essential so that we can confront organized crime in an organized, professional manner.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
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.
- Neutral
About: investigate and combat criminal factions
I make here a comparison with the situation in Italy in the 1980s.
- Neutral
About: investigate and combat criminal factions
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.
- Neutral
About: investigate and combat criminal factions
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.
- Neutral
About: investigate and combat criminal factions
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.
- Neutral
About: investigate and combat criminal factions
They even organized a process called the Maxi Trial, in which hundreds of mafiosi were tried at the same time and more than three hundred were convicted, including, for the first time, leaders of organized crime.
- Neutral
About: investigate and combat criminal factions
But organized crime sought to retaliate and, unfortunately, in 1992 both Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were assassinated by the Cosa Nostra in bomb attacks.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
On that occasion, those crimes shocked Italy and Italy began to organize itself more to protect and preserve the integrity of those who stand against the mafia organizations.
I will permit myself to read a passage here.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
Giovanni Falcone wrote a small book in 1991 — before, therefore, being the victim of that bomb attack — in which he already complained about the disorganization of the Italian State in protecting law enforcement agents.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
And, at the end of the book, almost as prophetic words, he wrote the following: One generally dies because one is alone or because one has entered a game larger than one's possibilities.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
One often dies because one must act in an improvised way and, without being helped, one is destined to be shot.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
In Sicily, the mafia wounds the servants of the State, whom the public authorities cannot protect.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
Unfortunately, this became a reality the following year, when he was assassinated in the bomb attack.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
We cannot allow our law enforcement agents, people who face organized crime with courage, who put more than their careers at risk, to remain unprotected, to be abandoned.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
If organized crime does not forget, if organized crime seeks to retaliate against those who did their job, we, the State, the public authorities, cannot abandon them to their own fate.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
This bill is an important step to guarantee legal protection for these law enforcement agents.
- Neutral
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
Of course, by itself it does not change reality.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
It is necessary, indeed, that the law be enforced. And, once those situations in which police, judges and prosecutors face real risks — which are not few — are identified, it is indeed necessary to grant these professionals specialized, organized protection to prevent any kind of attack and to avoid greater risks.
- For
About: organize and integrate the fight against organized crime
This is the way for society to give a response to organized crime.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
It is a way for society and the public authorities to say: Not here.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
Here we will defend those who defend us.
- For
About: organize and integrate the fight against organized crime
Here you do not rule and what will prevail is justice and the law.
- For
About: guarantee state protection to security agents, including retirees
May this bill be a first step toward the construction of a more rigorous, more stringent and more efficient legal framework against organized crime, one of the great evils, unfortunately, of our country! Thank you very much.
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