Son of , the deputy (-SP) stated that the minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) seeks to finish what Adélio Bispo, author of the stabbing against his father in the 2018 campaign, started, and that he wants to kill the former president.
Bolsonaro this Saturday morning (22) as determined by Moraes, rapporteur of the STF coup plot case. The minister cited in his decision the United States embassy and ankle bracelet violation in the early hours of the morning.
“Alexandre de Moraes’ objective is very simple: kill my father. Finish the job that the left has already tried. Alexandre de Moraes is, today, just a henchman who does the dirty work of the exceptional regime that aims to take power and completely eliminate the political opposition in Brazil”, wrote Eduardo on X, formerly of Twitter.
Eduardo also wrote a similar message in English on the platform. He has been in the United States since February seeking sanctions against Moraes to try to avoid punishment for his father. His trip to the USA was inclusive.
In the post, the deputy said that Bolsonaro is an elderly man who was “kidnapped from his residence, surrounded by dozens of henchmen from the Alexandrian gestapo” — the Gestapo was the police of Nazi Germany.
“Moraes is trying to finish the work that Adélio Bispo started. It’s an assassination attempt, nothing less,” he said. “Any exceptional regime aims to physically eliminate its dissidents; Alexandre de Moraes just follows the playbook of every psychopathic tyrant who came before him,” he added.
Jair Bolsonaro was taken to the Federal Police Superintendency in Brasília, where he will remain in an air-conditioned room.
The former president’s defense asked that he be kept at home, where he had already been under house arrest since August 4, and spoke of a “risk to life” given the health problems he faces.
Moraes rejected the request, but determined that Bolsonaro be “full-time” and “on duty” in the prison and with free movement of the medical team that accompanies him, without the need for prior authorization from the STF.
The minister justified, in his decision, a risk to public order, considering that a vigil of supporters had been called by the senator (PL-RJ), his eldest son and Eduardo’s brother, for Saturday night.
Live on social media this Saturday afternoon, Flávio called the decision the “destruction of our democracy”.
“What Alexandre de Moraes did today was to criminalize the sacred and constitutional right of assembly, the sacred and constitutional right of the free exercise of my belief. What he is saying, in this sentence, is that I cannot pray for my father, that I cannot pray for my country, that I cannot ask the priest to pray an Our Father in the sound car, because that would be a subterfuge for Bolsonaro’s escape”, said Flávio.
On live, the senator for PL from Rio de Janeiro cried and prayed: “I’m sure the Lord will not forsake him.”
Former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, during an agenda in Fortaleza (CE), said why human justice “cannot be sustained”.
The , in a note, that the arrest was based on the holding of a “prayer vigil”, guaranteed by the Constitution, and that the arrest caused “deep perplexity”. They also said they will file appeals.
on charges of orchestrating a coup d’état to remain in power. It is the first time in the country’s history that a former president is .
