The former president () released on Wednesday (23) a video showing the moment when a court officer enters his ICU (Intensive Care Unit) to.
Bolsonaro spoke for about 11 minutes with the court officer, showing contrary to the decision of the minister, (Supreme Federal Court), to communicate from the opening of the lawsuit while the former president is hospitalized.
“He thinks that holding me or taking me out of public life, is over. Everything is resolved to Brazil here. And that’s not the case,” said the former president.
The personal subpoena, with the defendant’s signature, is one of the initial steps of the process. After being notified, Bolsonaro has five days to present his prior defense to (Attorney General’s Office), indicating witnesses and evidence that he intends to collect in the criminal action.
“I have five days to present my prior defense. [Meu advogado] He makes the defense with me. Are you aware that you are inside an ICU room in the hospital? “He asked.
Amid the apology, he even compared the official’s performance to people who were fulfilling orders from Nazi Germany. “You are only fulfilling order here, but the staff of the Hitler courts also did their mission: they put Jews in the gas chamber. Everyone paid their price one day. It will not be different in Brazil,” he said.
Minister Alexandre de Moraes had decided to wait for an adequate date to summon Bolsonaro from the opening of the process. All other defendants of the central core of the coup plot had already been notified between April 11 and 15.
To SBT Brasil, from the bedroom bed, and on Tuesday (22) participated in Live in which he talked with, and his children. Former pilot Nelson Piquet also participated.
“The disclosure of live by the former president on yesterday (22/4) demonstrated the possibility of being quoted and summoned today (23/4),” said the Supreme.
With the subpoena, Bolsonaro has five days to present his initial considerations about the process that he is responsible for allegedly led a criminal organization that tried to give a coup after the election of Lula (PT) in the 2022 elections.
They presented previous defenses until Wednesday the defendants Mauro Cid, Augusto Heleno and Almir Garnier. Bolsonaro, Braga Netto, Anderson Torres, Alexandre Ramagem and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, remains.
Bolsonaro has been hospitalized since April 11 due to problems arising from the stab she suffered during the 2018 presidential campaign. He underwent abdominal surgery on the 13th – sixth surgical intervention since the incident seven years ago.
The former president has been in the ICU since he made the procedure, still without discharge.
The former president accused the Supreme to act confidentially against him. Criminal proceedings against the president, however, is public and the evidence used in the prosecution is open to the defenses.
Bolsonaro also said that the whole coup process should have been annulled when the Supreme Court decided on the former president.
It was in this investigation that the Federal Police seized the phone of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, through which the investigators had access to evidence of discussions to give a coup d’état.
The former president exalted himself a few times during the subpoena in the ICU. At one point, he shouted with an auxiliary that warned him of increasing pressure while speaking and removed equipment that mediates his vital signs.
He also said that “election without Jair Bolsonaro is a denial of democracy” and repeated that he will not escape from Brazil.
