Brazil: judge opens investigation against Bolsonaro for staying at the Hungarian embassy

A judge of Federal Court of Justice (STF) Brazil decided to open an investigation into the former president’s stay JairBolsonaro at the embassy of Hungary in Brasiliafinding no evidence that he intended to seek asylum to escape justice.

“There are no concrete elements that indicate – effectively – that the person being investigated intended to obtain diplomatic asylum to flee the country and, consequently, harm the ongoing criminal investigation.“, considered the magistrate Alexandre de Moraes in its resolution released this Wednesday.

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Bolsonaro (2019-2022) is being investigated as a suspect of planning a coup d’état to prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will assume the presidency in January 2023.

As part of this investigation, which began on February 8, Bolsonaro was banned from leaving the country and the police removed his passport.

But in March, the American newspaper The New York Times revealed that the former far-right president entered the Hungarian diplomatic headquarters on February 12th and left on the 14th, two days later.

This led to the opening of a judicial investigation into the episode.

However, during your stay “there is no disrespect for the precautionary measures imposed” to Bolsonaro, concluded Moraes, denying that the embassy represents an extension of foreign territory and, therefore, a violation of the restriction.

Bolsonaro’s defense confirmed the visit, which he justified by saying that it was in response to an invitation in which the former president “spoke with numerous authorities from the friendly country, updating the political contexts of the two countries”.

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“Any other interpretation (…) is part of fiction”, the lawyers then indicated.

The police launched the Operation Tempus Veritatis (the moment of truth, in Latin), against Bolsonaro and several of his close allies, including former ministers, for the alleged coup plot.

Bolsonaro denies this and says he is the victim of a “persecution”, an argument that he reiterated on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, where he led a demonstration in defense of “freedom of expression”.

Source: Elcomercio

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