Request filed by lawyers requests authorization for two pastors to assist the former president and clarifies that use of the device would be restricted to monitoring news channels
The defense of the former president filed this Thursday (8) a request to the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), to authorize the former head of the Executive to have religious assistance and a Smart TV type television set. Bolsonaro is being held at the Federal Police Superintendence, in Brasília, where he is serving a 27-year sentence and three years in prison for five crimes related to the coup d’état plan.
The request presented by Bolsonaro’s defense indicates two names for spiritual accompaniment: Bishop Robson Lemos Rodovalho, founder of Sara Nossa Terra, and pastor Thiago de Araújo Macieira Manzoni. The former president’s lawyers argue that the care would be individual, supervised and would not interfere with the unit’s routine or pose a safety risk.
Regarding the request for access to television, according to the petition, the use of the device would be restricted to monitoring news channels, including through streaming platforms widely used to broadcast journalistic content, such as YouTube, on a strictly informative basis.
“Access to the media, especially to journalistic and informative programming, represents a legitimate instrument for preserving the bond between the custodian and the social, political and institutional reality of the country”, justified the lawyers. According to the defense, the television set would be provided by the former president’s family and installed in the room where he is being held.
Earlier, the former councilor (PL-SC) visited his father and gave him a radio. On social media, Bolsonaro’s second son said that the former president is in an “unhealthy” cell.
Also this Thursday, Senator (Republicanos-DF) filed with the a request for the Senate Human Rights Commission to inspect the premises of the PF Superintendency, where Bolsonaro is imprisoned. In the document sent to Moraes, the parliamentarian requests authorization for the investigation and mentions information released by the press about the conditions at the site.
In the request, Damares mentions as a precedent the inspection carried out in 2018 by the Senate Human Rights Commission at the Federal Police premises in Curitiba, during the president’s custody. (PT). At the time, parliamentarians had judicial authorization to check the conditions at the site, in an initiative that, according to the document, observed the principle of equality.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
