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2022-06-10 14:12:29 In the recent decision, the ministers of the STJ understood that the so-called personal search - a practice popularly known as "approach", "search", "general", among others - made by security agents is illegal, if it is carried out under the allegation of suspicion or even from anonymous complaints.

For the STJ, the suspicion - an item provided for in the Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP) to determine the possibility of a personal search without a warrant - is only fulfilled if the police officers prove, "described as precisely as possible, objectively assessed and duly justified by the evidence and circumstances of the case", that the individual is in possession of drugs, weapons or other objects that constitute a crime. In practical terms, besides making police searches unfeasible, the measure would open the way for citizens caught with proven illicit objects during police searches to question the way the search was carried out and try to cancel the charges against them.

In Consesp's opinion, however, there was no legal restriction on police searches by the STJ, and the court's decision does not have a general scope, i.e., it is only valid in the context of the specific case judged by the court.

"We respect the STJ's decision; the Council is not opposed to the Judiciary. But there was an analysis of a concrete case, a specific case of an approach that happened in Bahia. Therefore, the decision does not have the power to limit that police checks be made when there is a reasonable suspicion," says Júlio Danilo Souza Ferreira, president of Consesp and public safety secretary of the Federal District.

The specific case to which Ferreira refers is the one that was the object of the STJ's judgment in the aforementioned decision. It is about a man who was indicted by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Bahia for drug trafficking. The boy was approached by police officers while riding a motorcycle during the early hours of the morning with a backpack on his back and with an attitude considered suspicious by the security agents. After the search, the police found 72 portions of cocaine, 50 of marijuana, and a digital scale in his backpack. Open / Comment

2022-06-10 14:11:43 In a national meeting, the secretaries of public security decide to maintain police approaches

The decision was unanimous among secretaries from every state in the country, who pointed out serious risks to security by weakening approaches

Public security secretaries from all Brazilian states and the Federal District decided at a meeting last Thursday (2JUN) that preventive police searches will continue to be carried out by state police even after a recent decision by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), which tightened rules for personal searches under the justification of fighting prejudice and "structural racism". For the representatives of the state governments present at the 82nd Ordinary Meeting of the National Council of Public Safety Secretaries (Consesp), which took place in Manaus (AM), there would be serious consequences to restricting police searches. Open / Comment

2022-06-10 13:18:56 Brazil preserves 'very well' the Amazon, Bolsonaro tells Biden at Summit of the Americas

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro assured his US counterpart Joe Biden that Brazil preserves the Amazon very well, during a bilateral meeting at the Summit of the Americas, held in Los Angeles, United States, on Thursday (9).

"Sometimes we feel threats to sovereignty in that part of the country [in the Amazon], but Brazil preserves its territory very well," Bolsonaro said.

The Brazilian leader added that "two-thirds of the Brazilian territory is preserved" and so is 85% of the Amazon. In addition, Bolsonaro praised the country's environmental legislation, stating that "in the near future" Brazil will be the largest exporter of clean energy, thanks to hydrogen. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 22:40:13 Summit of the Americas: US offers Brazil 'modest' amount to combat deforestation

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday (9) presented a series of measures to address the climate crisis, create green jobs and strengthen energy security.

The agenda presented during the Summit of the Americas comes with some specific measures, although once again "generic commitments abound," writes El País.

The United States will make a "modest" commitment in the fight against deforestation, and announced a US$12 million contribution to Brazil, Colombia, and Peru through Amazon Connect, in defense of the Amazon.

The aim is to reduce deforestation associated with logging and exploitation of raw materials and greenhouse gas emissions related to agricultural supply chains. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 19:09:08 French retail giant to be tried in Paris for deforestation in Brazil

Eleven French environmental organizations and indigenous peoples from Brazil and Colombia have filed a lawsuit against French group Casino for marketing products linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon. The first hearing takes place this Thursday (9).

Casino, owner of the Pão de Açúcar group and Colombian Éxito, is being accused of failing to comply with a 2017 law under which companies with more than 5,000 employees have a "duty of vigilance" regarding environmental violations in their subsidiaries around the world.

The judgment is considered unprecedented and makes the pressure on multinationals operating in Brazil, especially those dealing with agribusiness, even greater. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 17:23:30 Army Chief of Staff visits the Cyber Defense Command

On June 8, the Cyber Defense Command received a visit from the Army Chief of Staff, Army General Valério Stumpf Trindade, and the Chief of Science and Technology, Army General Guido Amin Naves.

The visit began with a presentation of the facilities, still under construction, of the future Cyber Defense Operations Center. Veteran Brigadier General Jayme Octávio de Alexandre Queiroz explained how the Center's final structure will look like. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 17:22:42 The Parliamentary Front, created in 2007 to ensure support for the research carried out by Brazilian scientists at the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, is currently chaired by Congressman José Rocha.

He reinforced that the contribution of the Brazilian parliament to raise financial resources makes research and the maintenance of the Brazilian presence in Antarctica possible.

"This fantastic program interests not only us, Brazilians, but the world, due to the level of excellence with which scientific research is carried out in the Antarctic continent. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 17:22:24 Navy presents Brazilian Antarctic Program at the House of Representatives

On the date when the World Oceans Day is celebrated, June 8th, the Brazilian Navy answered to the request of the Foreign Relations and National Defense Commission (CREDEN) and presented the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR) at the House of Representatives.

At the Public Hearing, the Secretary of the Interministerial Commission for Marine Resources (CIRM), Rear-Admiral Marco Antônio Linhares Soares, mentioned that in the last two years, since the beginning of the pandemic, the Antarctic Station Comandante Ferraz (EACF) adapted its activities so as not to compromise the safety of the researchers and to keep the operation running smoothly.

"We did not interrupt the research, we fulfilled the quarantines required on board before arriving at the Station, including the researchers who were with us at the time. We stopped sending researchers for a while - but not field research - and we will resume sending them this year," he explain Open / Comment

2022-06-09 17:19:48 The Minister of Defense, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira, participated, on the afternoon of Wednesday (8), in a hearing at the House of Representatives, at the invitation of the Committees of Financial Oversight and Control; and Social Security and Family. During the meeting with the parliamentarians, the Minister provided information about purchases of medicines and prosthetics made in 2020 and 2021 by the Armed Forces. Open / Comment

2022-06-09 17:18:51 ESET research: Brazil targeted by Lazarus cybercrime group

During the ESET World 2022 conference, ESET experts presented an investigation into the APT Lazarus group and its attack on defense contractors worldwide between late 2021 and March 2022.

Although the main goal of the Lazarus operation was cyber espionage, the criminals also tried unsuccessfully to extract money. "The Lazarus threat group showed its engineering by implementing a set of tools, which includes, for example, a user mode component capable of exploiting a Dell vulnerability check to write to kernel memory. This advanced trick was used in an attempt to bypass the monitoring of security solutions," said Jean-Ian Boutin. Open / Comment