Eduardo Bolsonaro criticizes the government’s “lame excuses” about prison escape

Federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) criticized this Friday (16) what he called “lame excuses” from the Ministry of Justice regarding the escape of two prisoners from the Federal Penitentiary of Mossoró (RN) last Wednesday (14). The parliamentarian also considered that there was help from someone inside the unit to facilitate the exit of the inmates.

“It is assumed that anyone who escapes from a maximum security federal prison does so with the help of someone inside the prison. What worries is when the MJ gives lame excuses, it seems, stifling the hypothesis of internal help for the escape. For what reason?”, wrote the deputy on the X network.

Minister Ricardo Lewandoski, of Justice and Public Security, attributed the escape to failures in planning a reform at the penitentiary and carelessness with construction materials. He also minimized the importance of criminals, who would be “soldiers” and not leaders of organized crime. Part of the escape was captured by security cameras and around 300 police officers are searching for the fugitives near the prison.

This Friday (16), a photo was released of the hole in the wall through which the prisoners exited to reach the “shaft”, an internal space made for the passage of installations and pipes.

Parliamentarians criticized the first escape from a federal prison. Preliminary information indicated that they are linked to Comando Vermelho and were previously detained in Rio Branco, Acre.

The teams in charge of locating the two fugitives were very close to recapturing them during an operation carried out in the early hours of this Friday (16). The main evidence found so far was a series of footprints and various objects, including clothes, towels and sheets, discovered in a rural area of ​​Mossoró, about 7 kilometers from the penitentiary, according to the People’s Gazette the National Secretariat for Penal Policies (Senappen).