Controversy: Bolsonaro removes speed cameras in Brazil for "driving pleasure" – 05/07/2019

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, defended the withdrawal of speed radars from the national roads with the argument of the return to the population of Brazil "pleasure to drive".

The President justifies this measure by reducing the fatal accidents that occurred during Holy Week holidays on Brazilian highways.

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Bolsonaro's statements were made in a TV show and in the middle of a controversy with Brazilian justice on the Remove Speed ​​Cameras.

A month ago, a civilian court in Brasilia ruled that the federal government "refrained from removing road radars" and had asked for studies to justify the end of the installation of new devices, a intention already expressed by Bolsonaro and published by the website uol in Brazil.

Standing next to the program driver broadcast by the channel SBT, the Brazilian president claimed that 8,000 radar installation orders were refused from the Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio de Freitas.

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"Once the contract with the radars already installed on the national roads will be executed, we will not renew them," said Bolsonaro. And he added, "When we said that, the press attacked me and said that the death toll would increase."

To justify the withdrawal of the radars, the President of Brazil stated that the number of fatalities has decreased: "During the holidays of Holy Week, the number of accidents en route and the number of deaths have decreased by 11%".

"The radar extrapolated this idea of ​​protecting life, it is a slot machine, that 's why since the beginning of the year, we started with this process," said Bolsonaro. In addition, he said that many accidents are caused by radars.

"I want Brazilians to have the pleasure of driving", condemned the President of Brazil.

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However, a publication last month on the same support highlights that the most radar-monitored state road in São Paulo recorded 31% fewer deaths in road accidents that a road with a number of meters five times smaller.

According to the report, in January and February of the past five years, 78 people died in the Rio-Santos section (SP-55), which has 74 fixed speed cameras. While in the section of the Regis highway, in the paulista territory (BR-116), with 14 radars, there were 113 deaths during the same period.

In the midst of this controversy, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo he published that the Bolsonaro family has accumulated more than 40 traffic violations in the last 5 years.

Brazilian media said in late April that the current president, three of his sons and his wife, Michelle, had received at least 44 road traffic offenses in the last 5 years, according to the Rio de Janeiro Public Transport Department.

Of the 44 offenses, 24 correspond to excessive speed; Four of them were committed by the current president, who also recorded one for crossing a lane reserved for buses and another for crossing a red light.