Brazil: a new federal survey open against Jair Bolsonaro

He is criticized to the Brazilian president of having propagated a false information in a video where he claims that the VVID-19 vaccine can give AIDS.

Le Monde with AFP

The judicial troubles accumulate for Jair Bolsonaro. A judge of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil ordered, Friday, December 3, the opening of a new investigation against the Brazilian President, who distributed a false information in a video linking between the Vaccine against Visc- 19 and AIDS disease.

The decision of Judge Alexandre de Moraes, a member of the highest authority of the Brazilian judiciary, responds to a request from the Senate Commission who accused the Head of State in October to have committed serious offenses during the pandemic. This new investigation is added to five other surveys open against Mr. Bolsonaro, so far without result.

In cause this time, a video in which the president, extreme right, quotes supposedly official reports of the British government who “suggest” that entirely vaccinated persons against coronavirus develop AIDS ‘disease “much faster than planned “.

” Calumnie “and” Crime incentive “

This information was denied by the British Government with the Fact-Checking Service of the France-Presse Agency and by the Brazilian society of infectious diseases, among other medical organizations.

The video was removed from Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, a video platform that also decided to suspend Mr. Bolsonaro’s chain for a week.

In August, the STF decided to conduct an investigation against Jair Bolsonaro for the offenses of “slander” and “crime incitement” in a case related to the questioning of the Brazilian electronic voting system.

The President is also under other investigations to determine if he has interfered, in cases concerning his family members, with the federal police or for disseminating social networks a police report. , under seal, concerning an alleged attack against the electoral system.

/Media reports.