The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) issued an opinion favorable to the pre-trial detention of the digital influencer Leonardo de Jesus, the Leo Indian, nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Defendant in the process of the scammers of January 8, 2023, Leo has been in Argentina for over 20 days.
For the PGR, he “deliberately failed to comply with an alternative precautionary measure, to highlight his insufficiency, the neglect of the application of criminal law and the disrespect to decisions issued by the Supreme Court”. According to the opinion sent to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), the pre -trial detention is justified to ensure the application of criminal law.
Leo Indian told the Estadão column who sought political asylum in Argentina to preserve his integrity. According to the PGR, the trip to the country “besides being unjustified, it is a capable of authorizing the establishment of its preventive custody.”
Last Thursday, 27, the first class of the Supreme Court formed a majority to deny Appeal of the defense of Leo Indian and to maintain the decision of the collegiate who made him defendant for participating in the acts. The complaint of the PGR points to an active participation of Léo Indio in the “planning, incitement and execution” of 8 January.
The influencer denied that he participated in any coup attempt. “While innocent, I will continue to enjoy my right to come and go,” said Leo Indian. According to Bolsonaro’s nephew, “until the process that put me in the refutable condition of defendant for pure and exclusively political persecution is completed. In order to preserve my physical, moral and intellectual integrity, I sought political asylum,” Léo Indian wrote to Estadão.
