The deputies of the Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) filed a request to the Federal Supreme Court for the preventive arrest of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro. They claim that Lula da Silva’s predecessor attacked democracy.
In addition to preventive detention, the deputies demand “breaking of telephone secrecy”, the “search and seizure” of evidence and documents “to prevent any form of destruction or concealment of criminal evidence” and also the “seizure of the passport of the former president”. Jair Messiah Bolsonaro.
“It is necessary to unfortunately highlight the history of the spread of fake news, with coup intent, of former President Bolsonaro: he has been designing the current scenario we are experiencing since the beginning of his presidency,” the document reads. was sent to the Federal Supreme Court on Monday.
Deputies list a series of statements by Bolsonaro highlighting the former president’s accusations against the current electoral system. “By attacking the electoral system with criticism (…), Jair Messiah Bolsonaro deliberately mobilized his social base not to accept a result that was not victorious, with many of his lines in the sense of inciting and encouraging his criminal allies,” they said. see PSOL representatives.
The deputies believe that Bolsonaro “keeps active his radicalized base”, which “constitutes a real criminal organization against democracy”.
Such an attitude of attacking the institutions responsible for the electoral process, added to the complete absence of a statement addressed to his supporters acknowledging his defeat in the election, shows conclusively that Jair Messiah Bolsonaro is deliberately keeping his radicalized base active , which culminated in various criminal acts and terrorists all over Brazil, setting up a real criminal organization against democracy,” the document states.
The request also refers to the former Brazilian head of state’s trip to the US, which is why his passport is being seized.
In addition, the fact that Jair Messiah Bolsonaro traveled to the United States of America while still President of the Republic without any official justification to avoid being on Brazilian territory from the end of his term also reveals an element that emphasizes the periculum libertatis, as it poses a risk to the application of criminal law, and must in any case have his passport confiscated so that he does not flee again when he returns to Brazilian territory,” the document said.
PSOL deputies accuse Bolsonaro’s management of creating, “deliberately, a huge mass of heavily armed people who do not accept the results of the last election, all under a fragile inspection policy that does not know the destination and whereabouts of weapons and ammunition”. . Jair Bolsonaro’s goal has always been to arm his militias to act against the election results.
It is said that there is a “risk that Jair Messiah Bolsonaro remains at liberty”. “It is clear that Jair Bolsonaro – and his coup d’état, more than proven in this petition – poses a concrete risk to public order, as his strategically-thought-out actions and omissions inflame his increasingly radical accomplices (…) “, reads in the document.
“It is essential that the established powers take appropriate measures to punish Jair Bolsonaro for the recurrent attacks on the democratic rule of law,” the deputies write at the end of the document presented to the federal Supreme Court.
Source: DN
