Criminal Amnesty/ "I have a different approach to the law", the head of the Security Commission reveals the details: We need criminal policy, not amnesty...

In the absence of 84 votes, the Criminal Amnesty was withdrawn from the agenda of this Thursday's (February 22) plenary session, while exactly the debate that this amnesty has sparked was discussed in the television studio.

Chairman of the Security Commission, Nasip Naço, said that the proposed amnesty is narrow, as he emphasized that what is needed are actually criminal policies.

"I have a different approach to the law on amnesty, I do not accept that the Minister of the Interior, the Prosecutor's Office, the Court prosecute or punish citizens and the Parliament comes out to make a compromise and let's forgive these people. It is a wrong approach if we see that we have full prisons and let's empty them. Today we have a police expansion, we have a police aggressiveness, they have encouraged them to implement the law, to prosecute anyone who violates the law, of course respecting the basic human rights and freedoms. Outside of my concept, I said that it is as narrow as amnesty.

Will an article or two be forgiven, because a group is interested... you can also find an article that has spelling mistakes, in the amnesty you also have an article that is not in the Criminal Code at all, a human error that they have made. I have a different approach and I don't understand this kind of amnesty. From the entire amnesty, at least according to statistics, 600 people in prisons benefit, but which of these politicians will benefit from these votes, if we take them for votes", he said.

Naço stated that his approach is to give the message to the Prosecution and the Court not to give prison sentences for crimes of low social risk, but to have alternative punishments such as a fine.

"The approach and perspective must be different. I am not in favor of emptying the prison, but I am that through the amnesty, extending to 5 years, we give the message to the Prosecutor's Office and the Court that tomorrow for an illegal fishing, do not put him in prison when the alternative punishment could be sentencing him to probation or a fine. So, if this approach is maintained, the entire judicial system will be oriented", emphasized Naço.