While awaiting the consequences of the complaint on charges of leading an attempted coup and that can take him to jail, the former president () has been accompanied by a supporter who uses a police badge on trips across the country.
Pacuor Bruno Scheid, 41, according to PL vice president in Rondônia, released a photo alongside the former president in a group of scholarship supporters, calling allies for amnesty act to prisoners and against the President (PT), scheduled for March 16.
The member of the former president, who is not security, states that the insignia brings the inscription “security agent” and serves to “facilitate circulation and avoid embarrassment in travel and events.”
Despite the advantages that the use of the emblem brings you, the rancher denies that the people who see him are induced to the mistake of confusing him with a policeman.
“There is no intention to simulate or induce a function I do not perform, just as there is no purpose in this sense in relation to other advisors,” he said.
Scheid is close to the former president and approached Bolsonaro through his former first lady
In the last election, he organized events for collection for the presidential campaign between ruralists from the North and Midwest.
According to a report in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, which obtained data through the Law of Access to Information, between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, before the election period, he was 11 times in the Planalto Palace.
Ji-Paraná’s businessman is not a police officer or a security officer. He was a partner of a furniture trade company in São Paulo and is currently a rancher in Ji-Paraná.
In 2019, he held a position in a board of the Rondônia Secretariat of Agriculture in the management of Marcos Rocha (today in União Brasil), and campaigned, in the last elections, for a defeated candidate for the State Government.
The PL press office did not comment on the fact and directed the report to look for the Rondônia directory for information.
The party is chaired by Marcos Rogério in the state. The senator’s advisory, in turn, stated that the attitude was a “personal question” of Scheid, “a personal relationship with him with President Bolsonaro and the [executiva] national”.
HAS Sheet Scheid said the photo was taken on Monday (24), when the former president traveled to find supporters in Pernambuco.
According to the rancher, the badge brings the inscription “security officer”, but is not confused with a police badge. He states that the object is “an identification used to facilitate access to meetings and displacements of nearby members at events.”
“This identification was adopted to avoid communication noise between advisers and professionals responsible for the safety of events, facilitating circulation. It could be a badge or any other form of identification,” said the rancher in a conversation via WhatsApp.
Scheid stated that the badges of the agents who accompany Bolsonaro are different from what he uses.
“This specific identification I am using is widely used all over Brazil to facilitate access, being common among parliamentary advisors, federal deputies and senators on travel and state events.”
“Its sale is not prohibited and can be freely acquired in specialized places, such as military houses, without the need for any proof,” said the former president’s supporter.
“I’m a fan of the police, but I’m not part of them and, of course, I would never pass a police officer.”
