The former president (PL) was convicted by the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region, based in Porto Alegre (RS), to pay compensation of R $ 1 million for, in 2021, with prejudiced criticism of the hair of black people.
Report by Carlos Villela, in Sheetreveals that the rapporteur of the case, Rogério Favreto, partially accepted appeal from the Federal Public Prosecution Service and the Federal Public Defender’s Office and voted for condemning Bolsonaro and the Union to pay $ 1 million each.
Bolsonaro had been acquitted in the first instance. Appeal of the decision.
In 2018, the then Attorney General of the Republic, Raquel Dodge, accused Bolsonaro, then federal deputy and candidate for presidency, of the crime of discriminatory demonstration against quilombolas, indigenous, refugees and LGBTs.
A in the first class of 3-2, with the vote of the minister, who accompanied and Marco Aurélio (rapporteur).
They understood that the statements were within the limits of freedom of expression.
“An eventual conviction of Bolsonaro could have made his election difficult, avoiding genocide in the pandemic, the vandalism of January 8 and the criminal organization that included high -ranking military,” we commented in this space last April.
The MPF did not use.
In the case judged by the TRF-4, the amount established is less than the R $ 5 million in compensation requested by the MPF and the DPU, authors of the public civil action, for collective moral damages and social damage arising from the statements.
Federal Prosecutor Carmen Elisa Hessel said racism manifests itself through rooted stereotypes and prejudice.
Bolsonaro’s lawyer, Karina Kufa, said there was no pretense of racial offense because it was a comment about a specific feature of a supporter.
Only 1% of punishments to judges in Brazil result in dismissal, reveals by Luany Galdeano, from Sheet, Based on a survey by the newspaper from CNJ data and 15 state courts.
Only seven judges and judges were dismissed from the judiciary since 2006. Between 2006 and 2025, at least 203 judges were punished with compulsory retirement.
Then I remember the oldest case of impunity that was processed in the CNJ and a recent example of slowness involving a very suspicious magistrate.
Retired Judge of the TJ-MG, was the author of the first request for procedure filed with the CNJ, in 2005. He denounced the influence trafficking in the Minas Gerais judiciary.
In 2018, the STJ annulled the decision of the Minas Gerais Court that had condemned the judge to prison, on charges of committing defamation and slander crimes against members of the examining committee of a public tender.
“The CNJ that could not moralize the career of judges and does not punish who owed, was not truly constituted as an external control body of the judiciary,” wrote Campos, when the CNJ turned 15.
The Judge of the TJ-MG was accused of negotiating the appointment of women and son to ghost public positions, without consideration of services.
The STJ rejected a complaint for passive corruption. The process was tumultuous in 2021. Ministers tried to prevent the rapporteur, Herman Benjamin, to complete the reading of his vote.
Alexandre is the son of the former president of TJ-MG Orlando Adão de Carvalho, suspected of corruption.
Before retiring, Adam transferred from his office to his son a lawyer who would receive earnings without working. The CNJ filed the case.
The Carvalho family had two former Justice Ministers in their defense: Eugênio Aragão and Alexandre de Moraes.
Last year, the CNJ maintained confidentiality on request for measures, which was processed in virtual sessions, to investigate acts of the judge as a rapporteur of a judicial recovery, identified in inspection of the National Corregedoria in 2023.
The request was filed, the confidentiality was withdrawn. The case has been waiting for nine months a decision in disciplinary complaint.
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