25th February 2024
The former president Bolsonaro has been accused of several crimes during his tenure and also after leaving office.
His political rights were stripped for holding a meeting with ambassadors while he was president, an attribution of the presidency, but the Electoral Justice found that it was enough to punish him by stripping his political rights. This was done, although the non presidents Dilma Rousseff and non president Lula da Silva did the same.
His accusers have claimed Bolsonaro ordered the murder of a city council member in Rio de Janeiro. The accuses even found an oral testimony of a witness that have seem the murderers inside the condominium where the ex-president owns a house. This was published by the mainstream media as a proof of guilt and multiple times the opposition tried to bring this to the Interpol or the Human Rights tribunal in Hague. This year, 2024 it was discovered that the murder of Mariele, the city counselor was ordered by a politician from the opposition to Bolsonaro that works in a cabinet at the government of Rio de Janeiro, Domingos Brazão.
Another interesting raid was that of “False statement”, where Bolsonaro lied about not being vaccinated during the Covid-19 pandemic. This, of course, was in vain, for there was no vaccine certification at his house and it was discovered that the computer record of the vaccination used in the arrest warrant was made in 2023, years after the vaccination should take place.
The main problem with this raid, is that allowed the police to gather all electronic devices from the ex-president and his wife to be examined.
A clear violation of the Constitutional Rights.
Justice must be free of political vendettas. Unfortunately this has been less and less common in our world.