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00:00:00leisure, right, Lude? No, there isn't,
00:00:02the gym is very far, the square, the court, so I end up
00:00:06staying at home, there's nothing to do, no,
00:00:10it wasn't always like this, until last year, Ludmila practiced
00:00:13sports in the old city where she lived, but she had to abandon
00:00:17the classes. In the new address, mother and daughter can at most
00:00:21take a walk through the bumpy dirt
00:00:24road. There's no way I can let her
00:00:27practice an activity alone on the street, because of the
00:00:30risks nowadays, right?
00:00:33Impossible.
00:00:35Ludmilla is part of a group of teenagers with a similar profile
00:00:39and, unfortunately, it's increasingly common. We
00:00:43see children with a predilection
00:00:46for more sedentary activities,
00:00:49using computers, staying more at
00:00:53home, a difficulty with public
00:00:57safety.
00:01:00Like Ludmila, Daniel also had back pain that
00:01:03started when he was still a child. The boy spent
00:01:07a lot of time on his phone and playing video games, it was up to 7 hours with
00:01:11his eyes on
00:01:12the screens.
00:01:15I went to the doctor and he noticed a
00:01:18scoliosis not so serious on my back, but that could
00:01:22worsen in the future. Sedentarism, as well as in
00:01:25adults, is very bad for children
00:01:28as well. In several aspects, from a postural
00:01:32and skeletal functioning point of view, the big
00:01:35challenge is that young people and teenagers don't
00:01:38realize this so early, but the boy
00:01:41with his mother's help found two years ago near home a
00:01:45place to put his phone
00:01:47aside.
00:01:49The turning point in the teenager's life came with stretching and
00:01:53balance exercises done at this gym. In
00:01:56a short time, his physique is not even a shadow of what it was before.
00:02:01Now these pains are much smaller, they are much more bearable and they are much
00:02:05rarer too, I think it has improved a lot, it's very good, I feel
00:02:08more willing to do things. In
00:02:12a year in the country, quadrupled the enrollments of students between
00:02:1513 and 18 years old in closed spaces for
00:02:18exercises. This is the case of Daniel, who had an
00:02:22important example at home. I
00:02:25have always been focused on exercise too, I have always liked
00:02:28it a lot, I have always tried to.
00:02:31these times she had the to give myself and I pass this on at home all the time,
00:02:33so I nag, I even tell him: "Oh, you'll only stop doing pilates when
00:02:37you put down your phone."
00:02:40The boy reduced the time he spends in front of screens, now
00:02:44it's 2 hours daily, he hasn't completely abandoned
00:02:47the computer, but he left his relaxed
00:02:50posture in the past.
00:03:01Eyes fixed on the screen or attentive to games
00:03:04projected on the TV, reflect a lifestyle
00:03:08that is increasingly common,
00:03:11fueled by long periods, without any
00:03:14physical activity, the distraction
00:03:17makes Diego lose track of
00:03:19time. Have you ever spent the whole day
00:03:23playing? Yes, the whole day, until the next
00:03:27bought an annual package for the family at day.
00:03:30Like so many Brazilian mothers, she juggles an
00:03:33intense routine, she works and studies,
00:03:37daily commitments increase the feeling of
00:03:40guilt for not being able to follow closely and
00:03:43change her son's routine.
00:03:46He gets up, drinks his coffee when
00:03:49he wants, he asks for my phone and I give it to him, he puts his
00:03:53little mattress here, he spends the whole day playing and he only gets up
00:03:57to eat, to do some hygiene. Diego
00:04:00is part of a battalion of sedentary children and
00:04:04teenagers, according to a recent survey conducted in
00:04:08the State of São Paulo, the number of teenagers with this
00:04:11profile is large, 86% are
00:04:15considered inactive. According
00:04:18to the World Health Organization, in Brazil,
00:04:2184% of young people do not meet the
00:04:25basic recommendation of at least one hour
00:04:29of daily physical activity. The study was
00:04:32conducted in 146
00:04:33countries.
00:04:36From an emotional point of view, you may be associated with more depression,
00:04:40anxiety.
00:04:44He could have more time here on the street, talking,
00:04:48playing with friends, but Diego has barely seen
00:04:52life pass by the window. It's hours and
00:04:55hours like this, on the phone
00:04:58or doing... absolutely nothing and from
00:05:02his room he comes to the living room, in a vicious
00:05:05cycle and almost imprisoning, this
00:05:09sedentary routine hand in
00:05:12hand. only with a cell phone generates
00:05:15a lot, a lot
00:05:17of anxiety, anxiety that has already affected
00:05:21Diego, staying connected like this is a
00:05:24way for the boy to escape a whirlwind of
00:05:27thoughts.
00:05:30And how's your head? Oh, it's racing,
00:05:33my heart starts beating,
00:05:37I start to smooth my hands, then my legs start to move, I can't stay
00:05:41still. During the interview, what seemed
00:05:44dormant, immobile, starts to stir, in his
00:05:48fingers, in his restless hands and
00:05:51legs.
00:05:54Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at USP shows
00:05:57that 36% of young people developed anxiety
00:06:01symptoms during the pandemic. There was an
00:06:04episode, he got up in the middle of the night and tried to go outside,
00:06:08sleeping, sleeping. Can't leave a pot on the stove.
00:06:12No, not that, because he
00:06:15forgets, which is what doctors call a vicious
00:06:19circle, physical prostration, increases
00:06:22anxiety, agitation, causes
00:06:25mood changes and decreases concentration.
00:06:28How long can you pay attention
00:06:31to a person like that before you get
00:06:34distracted? I think 10
00:06:38minutes, 15, around there,
00:06:40then, after that? My body starts to get agitated.
00:06:44It could be even less, Diego, research shows
00:06:48that in modern life, with the stimuli brought by
00:06:51technology, our attention is
00:06:55less than that of an aquarium fish, only
00:06:588 seconds, one second less than a goldfish.
00:07:02For Diego, lack of attention is
00:07:06reflected where he needs it most: at
00:07:09school. I used to walk around the classroom a lot.
00:07:13I used to mess with the others, Diego, despite being a seemingly
00:07:15sensitive and diligent boy, collects
00:07:19warnings while in 8th grade at a
00:07:23public school in São Paulo.
00:07:26It was two, three, one day, never more than
00:07:29three, but now it can't be more than that, otherwise what happens? I
00:07:33will change schools.
00:07:36Tired of the emotional rollercoaster, mother and son are
00:07:39committed to a modest project, but one that can...
00:07:42change the teenager's life, leave his
00:07:45room, a reaction to sedentarism that he promises
00:07:49to fulfill even when he is alone at
00:07:51home.
00:07:54It was very hot, so I decided to go out and ride my bike, it was very
00:07:57sunny. Recently, the bike that was
00:08:01unused was recovered, even if
00:08:05for a few minutes a day, the boy now rides through the streets
00:08:09of the neighborhood.
00:08:13The physical effort for him to leave anxiety
00:08:16and sedentarism finally
00:08:20behind.
00:08:26Dancing to post on social media is one of the few
00:08:29physical activities in Júlia's routine. I like the gym, but it makes me
00:08:33lazy.
00:08:36So lazy. Her father even
00:08:39the neighborhood gym. I ended up only going for a week. Because I get lazy, I
00:08:43don't have much focus for these kinds of things, so he kept
00:08:47paying and I didn't go. I took her last four months
00:08:50and put them on my plan, so my gym membership is paid
00:08:54until
00:08:542025.
00:08:59At 17, a person has plenty of energy, if they don't
00:09:03spend it properly, the body pays the price. Júlia
00:09:06feels this when it's time to sleep, or
00:09:09rather, when she needs to sleep, she suffers
00:09:12from insomnia. When I have insomnia I can fall
00:09:15asleep, but I keep waking up in the middle of the night all the time or I just can't
00:09:19sleep at all.
00:09:23In moments when she should be active, she shuts down. Sometimes I
00:09:26end up skipping class and the school coordinator comes and gives me a lecture
00:09:29or the teachers themselves bother you?
00:09:33It bothers me, why? Because you kind of don't have that
00:09:36energy that you would normally have sleeping the 8 hours that are
00:09:40needed, right? So you... stay tired
00:09:43all the time. Nights of insomnia are usually linked to moments of
00:09:47anxiety. Júlia has already identified that these
00:09:50crises start like this, by looking at her phone, something she
00:09:54does all
00:09:55day.
00:10:01We teenagers tend to compare ourselves to people,
00:10:05in terms of body, beauty and various things, so it ends up
00:10:08creating a certain anxiety about these things.
00:10:14When he only consumes the internet, he stays there playing games
00:10:18and with technology, he often becomes a
00:10:21consumer, he assumes the role of...
00:10:25reactive in the environment, he loses the ability to
00:10:28discern what he needs to be proactive in the
00:10:32environment to choose, to concentrate, act,
00:10:34resolve.
00:10:39It's in her room that she spends most of the day, glued to her
00:10:42cell phone. I spend a lot of time on social media, I post content on
00:10:46some networks where I have a certain engagement, sometimes I turn,
00:10:50turn, turn and can't sleep,
00:10:52then I end up escaping to my phone to try to sleep.
00:10:57Insomnia in children and adolescents is very common. Screens
00:11:01end up being, the worst factor to alter the sleep of
00:11:05any age group. Screens will cause the onset of
00:11:08sleep to be delayed. This man is one of the greatest specialists
00:11:12in the art of how to sleep better. Here at the
00:11:15institute where he works, an average of
00:11:1864 exams are performed per day, four of which are for
00:11:22children, examining patients while they sleep. With the help of
00:11:25graphs it's easy to identify when sleep is
00:11:28agitated, for example, here he moved, right? Various
00:11:32studies point out the importance of physical activity for sleep
00:11:35quality at any age, especially aerobic
00:11:39exercises. There are studies that evaluated
00:11:41like this: those who have a lot of physical activity and use screens
00:11:45have a smaller impact on sleep than those who are completely
00:11:48sedentary. The World Health
00:11:52Organization recommends at least 60 minutes per day of
00:11:55physical activities for children and adolescents between
00:11:595 and 17 years old. A recent study conducted in Belgium
00:12:03with 49,000 adolescents from 12 countries, showed
00:12:07that the more school pressure, the more time
00:12:10on tablets, on cell phones, the more psychological
00:12:13symptoms appear such as irritability,
00:12:16bad mood and nervousness.
00:12:19Consequently, sleep quality is worse, while
00:12:22among students who performed physical activities
00:12:26frequently, sleep was better and the symptoms of
00:12:29psychological pressure were more
00:12:32moderate. There's nothing better than this, than playing
00:12:35a sport to sleep well. I started climbing today, I have a routine, I come here
00:12:39every day, so you can't sleep late because I'll wake up early
00:12:43to come here. It changes, it changes
00:12:46a lot.
00:12:49The alarm bell for Júlia's family came with an anxiety
00:12:52attack experienced by the teenager. One of
00:12:56crisis, she grabbed the gate remote and ran
00:13:00out, that's when I started to realize that there was really
00:13:04something wrong.
00:13:07Even with this warning, Júlia still hasn't felt like going to the gym,
00:13:11but step by step she's starting to turn the game around. With her mother's company, she
00:13:14included walking in her weekly
00:13:16routine.
00:13:19What changes in your day when you come to walk with your mom?
00:13:23Oh, I have other thoughts and it clears my mind and gives me
00:13:27energy during the day, so you end up sleeping a little
00:13:30better. Exercise has been a fuel for
00:13:34the body, for sleep and for family unity. As a mother
00:13:38we miss this
00:13:41communication and when we manage to come,
00:13:44I also try to see it as my time with her, that the main thing is really
00:13:48to have this determination, this time for
00:13:50us.
00:13:57Now you will learn the story of the young man who lost his feet and hands due
00:14:01to complications from meningitis, but today he is a champion
00:14:05skateboarder. São Paulo, the city is the setting for a
00:14:08story that could be the script of a novel, a
00:14:11movie, a life with layers of
00:14:15pain. Why me? 7 million
00:14:19people in the world and it had to be me
00:14:21like that.
00:14:23In the same proportion. And layers of light, the
00:14:27mind is powerful, I know I can do anything, it's just a matter of wanting
00:14:30it. Daniel Amorim, 20 years
00:14:34old, known as Amorinha, idol and
00:14:38multi-champion of adaptive skateboarding, at
00:14:40seven he lost his feet and hands due to
00:14:44complications from
00:14:45meningitis.
00:14:48I only remember waking up in the hospital once, I stayed a little while in the hospital
00:14:52until I had to amputate my arms because
00:14:55the meningitis was necrotizing my arms, my legs, overnight
00:14:59everything changed.
00:15:03It was a new life, I don't
00:15:06remember much, I remember some phases of me running in the street and
00:15:09so on, a lot, a lot, a lot of playing
00:15:13with my arms and legs, but after that it was just
00:15:16adaptation. Daniel came home
00:15:20smiling, happy. I was
00:15:23scared, you know? You know how a person can be so strong
00:15:27like him, how he can overcome
00:15:30all this, you know, suddenly,
00:15:32repente,
00:15:35the loss of his limbs, believe it or not, is
00:15:39only part of the difficulties he faced head-on with his siblings. My
00:15:42two parents, actually, are drug addicts, in childhood
00:15:46we ended up seeing them in a difficult moment of their lives, and
00:15:49they used and we went through
00:15:53hardship, the school itself saw that it wasn't working out,
00:15:56so they called child protective services, took
00:15:59me and Marina, the older siblings, were taken
00:16:03to a shelter. This is even one of the reasons why there are no
00:16:06photos of them in childhood.
00:16:10Susana, the youngest, went to a distant
00:16:12uncle's house. That was really bad for
00:16:16me, for me, speaking for myself, for me and for him, right, because we were very
00:16:20close and ended up being separated. How was your life
00:16:24there in a shelter? We have our
00:16:26obligations, uh-huh, I didn't like it, because
00:16:30they were people I didn't know. I didn't feel
00:16:33the love of a family there,
00:16:36right? Do you think about your life like that, or
00:16:39I think it was at
00:16:42the worst moment light arrived, Dona Marlene, the children's
00:16:46aunt, fought for custody of the siblings. The first thing that
00:16:49crossed my mind was to get them out of there, to get them out, I'll take them, I'll
00:16:53bring them, they're mine, I'll bring them to me. It was a three-year
00:16:57long process in court until everyone was back together
00:17:00again, for love, it wasn't like that, because he is
00:17:04family, in the shelter even school he couldn't do anything. Then when I
00:17:08came here I learned to read, write, I learned everything,
00:17:12I learned to speak well and learned to
00:17:14believe, that if you want you will be, I always told
00:17:18him that from the first day he went to my
00:17:22house, I think that was the last piece missing for
00:17:26me to be someone in life, right, because that wasn't a real
00:17:29family, but like any good story, life
00:17:33reserved a surprise. While still living in the shelter, Amorinha...
00:17:37received a skateboard from a volunteer, so I said: "Oh Daniel, this is good for
00:17:41you, you'll ride a skateboard," because it never crossed
00:17:44my mind that I would be able to buy him a wheelchair.
00:17:47And it was skateboarding that
00:17:50introduced him to his second
00:17:52family, Amorinha. One day I went down to skate at
00:17:56the Jockey Club and he was wearing boxing gloves
00:18:00fighting, not even on a skateboard, at that moment I found it impressive, like, wow, the guy
00:18:04is boxing there, right, he doesn't even have hands, right?
00:18:07Okay, I went skateboarding, a little later I saw him skateboarding,
00:18:10then I said, man, who is this guy? They
00:18:14didn't know, but a beautiful partnership was beginning there,
00:18:18skateboarding brothers, life brothers. He is my
00:18:22brother from another mother, he
00:18:25showed me several things that I thought I would never be
00:18:28able to do. Like an older brother, Zaka
00:18:32taught Amorinho several tricks and taught him much
00:18:35more, he showed that skateboarding... would make Amorinha
00:18:39fly. He also showed me that I don't need a
00:18:43prosthetic to
00:18:45run, jump, do skateboarding also showed this and
00:18:49he taught me how to do
00:18:50this.
00:18:53He once told me, right, about him not having
00:18:57legs and arms and that skateboarding gave him speed, he made
00:19:01a crazy comparison like this, he said, Zaka, imagine if you
00:19:04could fly, which is something you can't do, man, wouldn't you like to fly around?
00:19:08Skateboarding does that for me, I can't walk, it gives me speed, then I
00:19:12said, wow, that's a complete dish of
00:19:15motivation, right, man? That's it, so you feel
00:19:19like you're flying when you're on a skateboard, I feel like I have my arms and
00:19:23legs again. Motivation generates
00:19:26happiness which generates achievement. The friends'
00:19:30fun turned serious, but
00:19:33when I found out I could do tricks, I could
00:19:36compete, I became someone in skateboarding and he showed
00:19:40me. Today he is a para- skateboarding
00:19:42idol. In these big skateboarding
00:19:46events that we go to, we went to the world championship, we have a much bigger
00:19:49thermometer of his reach, of his importance to people, you
00:19:53can't walk much with the guy, everyone stops, "Oh Amorinha, what
00:19:57a pleasure to meet you in person, we're walking on the street, etc. etc." then someone
00:20:01"Oh Amorinha, how are you Amorinha?" I'm like, my brother is
00:20:04really moving to be with him, I think everything I
00:20:08do today and everything I did was because of my mind, many times
00:20:12I stop out of nowhere, I say, "Look, I said,
00:20:15wow, I did all this with this stub here, with this
00:20:19arm here," so the mind is powerful,
00:20:22Amorinha, an unlimited
00:20:25mind.
00:20:33We knew, something big was going to happen
00:20:36in São Paulo. An extremely organized gang was going to steal 1 billion
00:20:40reais from the coffers of Banco do Brasil, this tunnel is different from
00:20:44all the others, for the first time, one of the robbers from the gang will
00:20:48tell everything that happened without...
00:21:16the biggest bank robbery in world history.
00:21:34Good evening, another episode of doc
00:21:37investigation begins, today you will learn what would be the
00:21:41Brazilian version of Money Heist, an ambitious
00:21:45plan, to enter the vault of a banking
00:21:48institution in São Paulo. To take 1
00:21:51billion reais from there. The gang brought together
00:21:55experienced thieves, they spent months digging a tunnel
00:21:59and came very close to committing the biggest robbery in
00:22:03history.
00:22:05Looking at it, you think, this is impossible,
00:22:08right? They said that there was São Paulo's entire economy
00:22:12there, no one had ever tried it this
00:22:15way, right, it was more about explosions, right?
00:22:19And then the idea came to do
00:22:22it underground, like a
00:22:25armadillo, we wanted to do something out of the ordinary,
00:22:28not leave a trace, the intention
00:22:31was to arrive without being received and leave without being
00:22:33seen.
00:22:36Yeah, but we didn't expect it to have all this repercussion.
00:22:54At the time, we were monitoring a gang that used to
00:22:57cut into ATMs, they first used hole saws,
00:23:01then started using a plasma
00:23:04torch,
00:23:06a different gang and we ended up arresting one of the
00:23:10components named Alex, his son is
00:23:13Amorinho, we arrested him in the municipality of Praia
00:23:15Grande.
00:23:20Years ago he was well known to the police with
00:23:23records for robbery and criminal
00:23:25association.
00:23:29We brought him to the police station when he was caught in the act for illegal possession of a
00:23:32weapon, and we noticed that he was very strange, very
00:23:36strange, and he was desperate, he wanted us to release him
00:23:40by all means, he even tried
00:23:43to bribe the police officers, so we decided not to
00:23:46charge him with passive corruption and... to schedule his
00:23:50hearing at the court, and just like that, the hearing ended,
00:23:54he was released at the custody hearing and
00:23:58he headed to the North Zone and a team of ours was following
00:24:02him.
00:24:06Our police officers started living this guy's life and he led
00:24:10us to the first property, the warehouse in the North Zone, this
00:24:14target of ours enters the warehouse and stays for
00:24:17a while, we knew that... something big was going
00:24:21to happen in São Paulo, they were going to execute the
00:24:24crime, they were going to steal a lot of money from somewhere.
00:24:27At the same
00:24:31time, an
00:24:33informant approaches a police officer and says:
00:24:37"A billionaire robbery is about to happen in São Paulo." Was
00:24:41that it? It seemed unbelievable, but we
00:24:44decided to investigate, we had a duty, right, to
00:24:47investigate. From then on, a silent police
00:24:51operation began to prevent what would be the robbery of the century, yes, it would be a
00:24:54gigantic robbery unprecedented in police history, the informant when
00:24:58he seeks the police, he always has some interest, the informant is
00:25:02a collaborator, he is sometimes a
00:25:05frustrated person, who was excluded from the crime, then when he realizes
00:25:09that there will be a gigantic action, that everyone around him will get rich and
00:25:13he won't, he perhaps out of envy, he
00:25:16ends up passing the information to our police officers. The
00:25:20police informant brings two fundamental
00:25:23pieces of information: the criminals are going to steal a billion
00:25:27and they are going to do it by digging a tunnel, several individuals,
00:25:3115 to 20 individuals would be making this this tunnel that was almost
00:25:34ready, in fact, we found it to be a very
00:25:37fantastical story due to the values he informed
00:25:41us. The informant says 1
00:25:44billion, can you believe that right away?
00:25:47We think, wow? 1 billion reais is
00:25:51a lot of money to carry, physically speaking, it's a lot of money to take from
00:25:54somewhere and this is the biggest robbery in the world, this robbery of the century, because what
00:25:58happens? To give you an idea of the values, the central bank.
00:26:02There in Ceará it was 160 million, the assault on the central
00:26:06bank in Fortaleza made headlines worldwide.
00:26:09The crime in the capital of Ceará was in
00:26:122005, there the criminals also used a
00:26:16tunnel. We asked this informant to
00:26:19get close to this gang and started looking in the capital on
00:26:23the other hand, where we could find 1 billion of
00:26:26reais here in São Paulo, where there would be 1 billion reais. Only
00:26:30one place in the capital of São Paulo had
00:26:32so much money, the Banco do Brasil complex in Santo
00:26:36Amaro. When the information from the Santo Amaro base
00:26:39comes, we get excited again, he said, "Wow, we're back in the game
00:26:43right?" So there's
00:26:44something,
00:26:47but in this game the thieves were ahead.
00:26:50For the first time, one of the
00:26:54members of the gang will tell everything that happened
00:26:57and will not hide. The
00:27:01interview will be in a...
00:27:03place where a large part of this crime was
00:27:05planned.
00:27:08I'm Valdomir José da Cruz, better known as
00:27:11Mirão. Why did you decide to give this interview now?
00:27:15Well, because it's been almost 10 years and
00:27:19since this happened, people keep
00:27:23wanting to know how it was and they're always curious
00:27:26about how it started, how it was planned.
00:27:30The house of... Brazilian paper was not Valdomiro's
00:27:34first undertaking.
00:27:37Since I was 13, I haven't done anything else
00:27:41but live in this underworld. Were you ever arrested before? Yes,
00:27:45I was. I was arrested
00:27:48for the first time in 84 during the
00:27:51robbery of the SPT bank, on December
00:27:5510, 84. You're one of the robbers. I'm one of the
00:27:59participants. You don't use that word, robber, right? No? You say
00:28:02work. Why do you change the word?
00:28:06I don't know, I don't like that word. I don't know, it has
00:28:09a weight, I think. Valdomiro actively
00:28:12participated in the selection of the gang.
00:28:15We started to meet, look for some friends here, went to a
00:28:19restaurant, a bar, a bodega, were
00:28:22playing billiards. He said names, right? He said, "Oh,
00:28:25so-and-so, no, this one can come." That's how we
00:28:28chose them. What crime is
00:28:31this? The crime of the century, right? The biggest robbery in
00:28:34history, the biggest robbery in history. This is one
00:28:38of the criminals recruited for this gang that intended to take 1
00:28:41billion reais from Banco do Brasil.
00:28:45There were dangerous people among them. Oh, there were already known people, right, in the
00:28:49criminal world, dangerous people. People say
00:28:52so.
00:28:55A bank robber is at the top of the criminal food chain. If you go into
00:28:59a prison and talk to all the prisoners and... ask who here
00:29:03has robbed a bank, you'll see that it's
00:29:060.0001%
00:29:08of criminals who have robbed a bank. They tend to be older
00:29:12than average, they are already experienced in
00:29:15crime.
00:29:18This gang usually has several cells too, right? And sometimes they
00:29:21even use women too, they rent houses with fake
00:29:24documents, right? From these houses they start
00:29:28digging tunnels and there's another one that
00:29:31is... that will try to escape with money, right?
00:29:35So they are very well
00:29:36organized.
00:29:40Between the idea of committing this robbery and its execution, renting a house
00:29:44and starting to dig, how long did this preparation take, more or less? 30
00:29:47days. And when the idea came to find a house,
00:29:51find the
00:29:53financial support, you started
00:29:57digging in July, July 15. What was the
00:30:01goal there? The goal would be
00:30:04to take at least 1 billion reais, right? Why do you say at least 1
00:30:08billion? Because according to the
00:30:11information, there were around 4
00:30:14billion. I looked for the
00:30:18security superintendent, who is our friend. I said, "Look, there's a
00:30:21suspicion that they're going to attack your
00:30:24vault which is there in Santo
00:30:27Amaro." At first, it felt
00:30:31a bit like... an impossible thing.
00:30:34He informed, "Imagine,
00:30:36impossible. That's an unassailable place.
00:30:39No one gets in there." Then I said, "Okay, but that's the information."
00:30:43Obviously we contested a bit about the fact that it's
00:30:47a building built in the 70s,
00:30:50with a fantastic concrete structure,
00:30:54reinforcement, uh, designed to have an
00:30:57absurd level of security, right? Level.
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