Dino defends classifying factions as terrorists in the terrorism law

The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, defended this Thursday (26) changes to the Terrorism law to classify criminal factions as terrorists. For Dino, they must also be targets of more rigorous financial weakening mechanisms.

“When we talk about terrorism, we always remember global organizations linked to the geopolitical dispute over water, energy, territory, and which would even operate in Brazil. But we must also turn our attention to an aspect that, broadly speaking, I classify as terrorism. Is domination of the territory, such as militias and factions that have established themselves in Rio de Janeiro, or not, materially speaking, an act of terrorism?”, asked Dino during the congress of the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban) on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing.

One of the options highlighted by Dino to overcome organized crime would be to close financing channels. “This is the true path and not fictions like this of the infinite, fiscally unfeasible expansion of police contingents or even those creepy demagogies of going out shooting in the middle of the street, thinking that there are, in these weapons, silver bullets that will, by magic, , define the extirpation of organized crime, broad terrorism from Brazil and ensure the peace that Brazilian citizens deserve”, he defended.

Dino pointed out that although the legislation treats terrorism as the act of provoking social and widespread terror, alluding to the sabotage of means of transport, the current law requires that these acts derive from prejudice or discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity and religion.

“Terrorism was what the militia faction did [no Rio de Janeiro], set fire to buses and trains and prevented the movement of people and goods. And there is a closure of the scope of the rule”, he explained.