Politicians from the base of President Luiz Inácio da Silva () celebrated the death of (-RJ) this Monday (13) at the US Customs and Control Service, in Orlando, Florida, and defended the deportation of the former federal deputy.
The former Minister of Institutional Relations (PT) stated that “this group” of Brazilian politics who adore the American president, “are feeling firsthand what an authoritarian and far-right government is” with the detention of the former parliamentarian.
“May he be deported to Brazil to serve his sentence for attempted coup d’état,” wrote Gleisi in a post on social media.
Alexandre Ramagem is considered a fugitive from Brazilian justice, after leaving Brazil and remaining in the United States since last year. He was sentenced by the (Federal Supreme Court) to 16 years and one month in state prison in 2022.
This second arrest, however, has no relation to the conviction by the Supreme Court. The former director general of Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) under the Bolsonaro government was detained by the department responsible for arresting illegals.
In a video, the deputy leader of the government in the Chamber, Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ), declared that the arrest of the former deputy under the Trump administration, which implements a strict immigration policy, is an “irony”. “Those who defend Trump so much were arrested by the extremely violent police,” he said.
The leader of the PT in the Chamber, Pedro Uczai (SC), declared that Ramagem “fled Brazil to escape justice, but ended up being detained in the country he idolized so much.”
“Great day”, wrote Guilherme Boulos, minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, on X (formerly Twitter), in a reference to the phrase used by the former president (PL). Boulos also defended that the former deputy “pays for his crimes” in Brazil.
Former minister Zé Dirceu (PT), who is expected to be a candidate for federal deputy in October, stated that “not even Trump is protecting the Bolsonarists.”
Ramagem’s allies claim that the arrest was motivated by a minor traffic violation due to his driver’s license being out of date.
However, a document from the US Department of Homeland Security shows that former congressman . The information was published by the Metrópoles portal and confirmed by Sheet.
According to the general director of , Andrei Rodrigues, the former director of Abin left Brazil clandestinely via the border with Guyana.
In December, the STF minister ordered the opening of Ramagem’s extradition process.
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