Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said that the request of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) for Debora Rodrigues to migrate to the house arrest regime was a “tactical retreat.” PGR’s evaluation was received by Alexandre de Moraes, in the Supreme Court (STF), who granted the benefit to the hairdresser of Paulínia, in the interior of São Paulo.
“We are not celebrating a breakthrough. We are witnessing a tactical retreat. And still covered in legal cynicism,” Bolsonaro said in the X (former Twitter). “The shame was too big to support.” Deborah became a symbol of the former president’s campaign by amnesty to the January 8 prisoners. According to the score of Estadão amnesty, there are 191 votes in favor of the proposal.
Deborah was arrested in March 2023 for participating in the acts of vandalism of 8 January. During the invasion of public buildings, she used a lipstick to spark the phrase “lost, Mané” in the statue “The Justice”, located in front of the Supreme Federal Court (STF). This month, the first class of the Court began the judgment of the hairdresser. Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of criminal action, requested 14 years in prison in closed regime and was followed by Flávio Dino.
The time of penalty requested by the rapporteur considers that, in addition to the depredation of public assets, Deborah joined hundreds of invaders whose purpose was the deposition of the rule of law. For joining the gang “free, consciously and voluntarily,” Deborah responded for crimes of armed criminal association, attempted abolition of the rule of law and attempted coup. Added, these crimes correspond to 10 years and six months – most of the penalty calculated by Moraes.
Minister Luiz Fux asked for a view, pausing the trial of Deborah, and during the session of the first class that evaluated the receipt of the PGR complaint against Jair Bolsonaro and seven nearby allies, Fux mentioned the case and said he considered Deborah’s penalty.
In testimony, the hairdresser confirmed that it vandalized the sculpture, but said it acted in the “heat of the moment”. She said she did not know the symbolic value of the statue. Deborah’s phrase refers to a statement by court minister Luis Roberto Barroso in November 2022.
