The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro spent the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, September 17 at a hospital in Brasilia after discomfort, said his family, a few days after his sentence at 27 years in prison for a coup attempt.
Assigned to the house arrest since the beginning of August, the former leader of the extreme right (2019-2022) “felt bad, with a strong crisis of hypo, vomiting and a fall in pressure,” said his eldest son, Flavio Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro on Tuesday, Tuesday in X.
The former president had a “more severe episode” of the Hiccup crisis that left him “almost ten seconds without breathing,” journalists against the hospital told. The state of Jair Bolsonaro, 70, “is stable but does not look good,” continued the senator, adding that his father would spend the night “under observation.”
Heavy medical history and fragile health
After the exams, the former Brazilian leader received medications for intravenous, said his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, told her husband on Instagram, asking her husband’s supporters to “continue praying” for him.
On Tuesday afternoon, prison police officers remained on guard in front of the hospital, AFP said.
The former president has experienced many health problems in recent years and has been operated several times due to the consequences of a sharp attack suffered during a crowd bathroom in the middle of the electoral campaign, in April. In April, he underwent a strong surgical intervention with an abdomen of more than twelve hours to absorb an intestinal occlusion. Then he stayed three weeks in the hospital for his convalescence.
A historical conviction and current appeals
On Sunday, September 14, Jair Bolsonaro briefly left the house where he was under house arrest to undergo a biopsy of the skin. The Supreme Court sentenced him on Thursday, September 11, 27 years in prison on Thursday, September 11, after a historical trial at the end of which he was declared guilty of conspired to remain in power, despite his electoral defeat against the current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022.
But it can only be imprisoned after the exhaustion of all possible appeals, and his defense has already announced that he would soon appeal.
Jair Bolsonaro has been under house arrest since August 4 for suspicions of obstruction in his trial. In July, he had already been forced to use an electronic bracelet and the use of social networks had been prohibited. His supporters press for an amnesty of the former president and the hundreds of Bolsonarist supporters convicted of a coup attempt.
Source: BFM TV
