Bolsonaro asks the Federal Supreme Court to return his passport to visit Israel

The far-right former president JairBolsonaroinvestigated for an alleged coup plot, asked the Supreme Court of Justice Brazil the temporary return of your passport to visit Israel and respond to the invitation of the Prime Minister of that country, Benjamin Netanyahuinformed his lawyer this Thursday.

Bolsonaro’s defense requested travel authorization and return of the document, “albeit for a fixed period“, given the official invitation to visit Israel between the 12th and 18th of May with his family, wrote the lawyer Fabio Wajngarten on social network X.

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The lawyers made the request through a letter sent to the judge of the Federal Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraesin charge of an investigation that points to Bolsonaro as a suspect in planning a coup d’etat who sought to prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will assume the presidency in January 2023.

As part of that investigation, police confiscated his passport on February 8.

The defense of JairBolsonarowho denies the accusations and declares himself the victim of a “persecution”, guaranteed that the “travel does not pose any risk to the process”.

“International relations are part of political activity, as is the expansion of dialogue with world leaders”, stated Wajngarten.

The request to leave the country comes at a time when Bolsonaro, disqualified from running for public office, is under judicial scrutiny for various reasons, which his critics consider to be a risk of flight.

On Monday, the American newspaper The New York Times published information according to which “had hidden”at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia days after his passport was confiscated.

His lawyers denied that he was trying to evade justice and said that hosting “two days“looked”maintain contact with authorities in the friendly country”, led by far-right leader Viktor Orbán.

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A close ally of Netanyahu, the former Brazilian president (2019-2022) was invited by the Israeli prime minister on February 26, days after the outbreak of a diplomatic crisis between Israel It is Brazil.

Relations soured after Lula compared the Israeli attacks to Gaza strip with him Holocaust.

After these statements, Israel declared Lula “not grateful person” and summoned the Brazilian ambassador in Tel Aviv. Brazil convened its own consultations and summoned the Israeli representative in Brasília.

Source: Elcomercio

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