We have finally discovered the most important measure Moro took as Bolsonaro's employee.
Lula's Federal Police came to his rescue. You could have been killed for forbidding the PCC guys from dating.
Sergio Moro had a generic and empty rhetoric about what he would do as Bolsonaro's employee when he took over the Ministry of Justice in January 2019.
He spoke of fighting the 'corruption' of politicians, always making a pouty face with the added 'i', and defended a plan to protect the national cigarette industry from competition from smuggling.
It flirted with the fascist project of expanding the concept of justifiable homicide, which would legally license the police to kill even more.
He advocated for a package of 10 measures against the 'corrupt', drawn up with Deltan Dallagnol, of which nobody remembers, not even one.
And he publicly endorsed one of Bolsonaro's first decrees that expanded access to weapons, always with the excuse that the idea wasn't his.
The truth is that nobody remembers anything Moro did within the government. Not even Bolsonaro.
The boss fired him when he ousted him, in a meeting of ministers, in front of everyone, for being incapable of monitoring enemies of the Bolsonaro family.
Moro left the government in April 2020 and went out firing shots. He spent a year and four months alongside the man who won the election while Lula was imprisoned for his involvement in the Lava Jato operation.
His productivity, as an unreliable subordinate of the man now accused of jewelry smuggling, was almost zero.
One year and four months without anything that can be presented today, not even as an embryonic idea, with any relevance.
Moro is in the news again for being monitored by PCC gang members, as retaliation for a measure he adopted in February 2019, at the beginning of his tenure as Minister of Justice.
But what measure? And Brazil then learns that Moro was the author of an order that prohibited conjugal visits for PCC leaders and inmates in maximum-security federal prisons.
The PCC decided to hunt down Moro four years later and allowed Brazil to learn what the former judge did in government: he prohibited conjugal visits.
Moro didn't hunt down criminals, he didn't contain drug trafficking and militia gangs that are still active today, he couldn't even defend the national cigarette industry. But he prohibited conjugal visits in prisons, and that's why he was now at risk.
All because he didn't want the partners, girlfriends, or friends of PCC members to visit them in prison.
Moro failed as the minister who was supposed to assist in protecting the Bolsonaros, because he didn't properly understand the task of managing family affairs.
I never knew what he did afterwards as an employee of an American consulting firm that provided services to groups whose leaders had been arrested by Moro himself.
He failed as a presidential candidate. But he was elected senator for Paraná and is back in the headlines as being persecuted by the PCC.
All because he prevented the group's leaders from having contact with their wives. Moro's most important measure as minister was, in essence, a moralistic decision.
The PCC's plans against Moro, uncovered by Lula's Federal Police, are unrelated, as some newspapers reported to glamorize the case, to the transfer of the organization's leaders to a federal prison, also four years ago.
The retaliation orchestrated because of the transfer and other restrictive measures would primarily target prosecutor Lincoln Gakiya.
He was the one who hunted down the PCC with a series of decisions that silenced the organization both inside and outside prisons.
Moro was simply blocking women from entering prisons. And that's why he's back on the front pages of newspapers.
The Federal Police, which Moro discredited in 2021 by saying it was contaminated by Bolsonaro's militia structure, was the one that saved him.
So, Sergio Moro, don't misinterpret Lula's statement in the interview with TV 247, when the president said he wished to see you screwed over by your own misdeeds.
Lula's Federal Police came to his rescue. You could have been killed for forbidding the PCC guys from dating. Because of shallow moralism, you almost screwed yourself over, Sergio Moro.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
