Overview

• Approved in a symbolic vote on October 14, the package (PL 4.809/2024) now heads to the Chamber for analysis before any provisions can take effect.
• Sentencing rules are tightened as prison terms longer than six years must start in closed regime, with four to six years beginning in semi-open.
• Judges gain broader grounds to order preventive detention and assess dangerousness in custody hearings, including repeated violence, public-order risk, and ties to criminal organizations.
• New offenses include “qualified resistance” and penalties for using barricades, fire, explosives, or human shields against police operations, with explicit exemptions for political and social demonstrations.
• Penalties rise for robberies, militia formation, and weapons crimes, including 10 to 20 years for possession of prohibited or illicit-origin firearms and harsher treatment of arms trafficking, while progression of regime in crimes tied to trafficking or militias can be conditioned on paying fines with an indigence safeguard.