Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison

The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil declared the former Brazilian President to blame for the crimes of “violent abolition of the rule of democratic law, coup and participation in armed criminal organization” in order to “return the dictatorship to the country”.

The first court of the Brazilian Supreme Court of Brazil formed today a majority to condemn Jair Bolsonaro By attempted violent abolition of the rule of democratic law, coup d’état, participation in armed criminal organization, qualified damage and deterioration of heritage.

The Judge Rapporteur Alexandre de Moraes It proposed a penalty of 27 years and three months in prison closed to the former Brazilian president, after the court declared the former Brazilian president guilty for attempted coup.

“As Consequences of Crime are widely unfavorable because they were directed to annihilate the essential pillars of the Democratic Rule of Law, through violence, serious threat, systematic attacks to the judiciary. The greater consequence of the crime would be the Return to a dictatorship in Brazil“Justified the judge.

Although it had foresawing the sentences in a reserved session for Friday, the court ruled immediately pass the sentence phaseonce the hearing is completed in which, for four votes to onehe stated the blame for Bolsonaro and seven other defendants, including former ministers and former military chiefs.

The judges Flávio Dino, Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin, who had voted for the conviction of Bolsonaro, accompanied the proposal of Alexandre de Moraes.

On the other hand, the judge Luiz Fux, the only one of the five judges to vote for acquittal From the former president, he understood that he should not participate in the dosimetry of the penalties.

In addition to Jair Bolsonarothe federal deputy were also sentenced Alexandre Ramagemthe Admiral ALMIR GARNIER SANTOSformer Navy Commander, the former Minister of Justice Anderson Torresthe General in Reserve and former Chief of the Institutional Security Office of the Presidency of the Augusto Helenothe Lieutenant Colonel and former Assistant of Orders of Bolsonaro, Mauro CidGeneral and former Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and the General in Reserve and former Minister of the Civil House Walter Braga Neto.

The four judges supported the position of the prosecutor, which considered that the “Criminal organization” divided the tasks and operated hierarchically under Bolsonaro’s orders, which only failed due to the refusal of the commanders of the army and the Air Force, when the accused had everything ready to decree a state of exception, intervene in the Electoral Court and remain in power.

According to the prosecution, the defendants launched a campaign against the legitimacy of the institutions through threats and the dissemination of false news to create a favorable social environment.

Following the defeat at the polls in October 2022, the defendants “wrote decrees with exceptional measures, edited by Bolsonaro himself”, and started a plan, corroborated by documents and audios, to murder Lula da Silvayour vice president Geraldo Alckmin and Judge Alexandre de Moraes himselfprocess rapporteur.

The only divergent vote was by Luiz Fuxwhich acquitted Bolsonaro of all accusations because, in his opinion, There is not enough evidence to determine the condemnation.

Entry into prison will not be automatic, as there is still a possibility of appeal for the Supreme Court. After the publication of the judgment, the defense and the prosecution may ORDER DECLARATION BOARDS, WITHIN FIVE DAYSto correct any contradictions or omissions.

These resources can prolong the process for weeks or monthsand even after eventual rejection, new incidents may emerge as diseases.

“A Farce”

The senator Flávio Bolsonarothe eldest son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, said that Father’s judgment “was a scam” And promised that they go “Lutter”.

“The message I want to leave here now, after going through these moments, now, with President Bolsonaroit is a message from him to the entire population, ”the senator told the press, at the door of the condominium in Brasilia, where his father is in house arrest for having incurred precautionary measures that had been imposed on him.

“The least we demand is that Alexandre de Moraes returns everything What he took from Bolsonaro and the right. Pacification will only come with total amnestycriminal, administrative and electoral, ”he said, referring to both the judge of the process and the amnesty that parliamentarians affected to Bolsonaro seek to pass in the Brazilian Congress.

Flávio Bolsonaro, quoted in the local press, said that The father “is outraged”. It is “ reaction of an unjustly convicted innocent”He considered, stressing that they will not accept the decision and that they will” fight to the end. “

The deputy Eduardo Bolsonarowhich is in the United States to do ‘Lobby ‘with the US Administration For the White House to exercise pressure from the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of Brazil, it appealed to social networks just to share a message from the member of the House of Representatives of the United States Carlos A. Giménez who considered that “Bolsonaro is a political prisoner and should be released immediately“.

Plateau invasion

Jair Messias Bolsonaro was the 38th President of Brazil, a position he held between January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2023. He applied for a second presidential term, having been defeated at the polls by Lula da Silva on October 30, 2022.

On January 8, 2023, a few days after the inauguration of Lula da Silva, hundreds of supporters of former President Bolsonaro I, the Planalto Palace and the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil.

The movement had clear similarities to the supporters of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, in protest against the results of the elections that gave the victory to Joe Biden.

In May 2020, months before the elections, more than 80 personalities, including the constitutionalist DIEGO WERNECK ARGELHESthey sent a letter to the UN in which they reported a “unprecedented campaign”Against the Brazilian courts and accused the then Bolsonaro president of creating the conditions for.

In September 2021, in a Brazilian speech before thousands of supporters, Bolsonaro stated that, and declared that would never be arrested.

“At that moment, I want to once again thank you all. Thank God, for my life and for the mission, and say those who want to become ineligible in Brasilia that Only God takes me out of there. I just get arrested, killed or with the victory, but I mean the scoundrels that I will never be arrested, ”he said.