A video broadcast on Monday shows the ex-far-right Brazilian president to “incredible” the events of January 8, while he is in Florida after leaving Brazil at the end of the year.
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The video lasts less than two minutes and she shows the ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in discussion with people who seem to be sympathizers.
in an extract posted on Monday, February 16, by the metropolitan information site , Mr. Bolsonaro who is in Florida after leaving the Brazil on December 30, two days before the handover with his successor on the left Lula, returns to the ramps for places of power in Brasilia of January 8 by far -right supporters.
“I deplore what happened,” said Mr. Bolsonaro, calling these events as “incredible”. On that day, thousands of people identified as Bolsonarists invaded the seat of the presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court, refusing to recognize the result of the presidential election giving Lula winner.
On the sequence broadcast on Monday and which, according to Metropolises, was filmed “at the door of the house where he stays in Orlando, in the United States”, supporters advise him not to return to Brazil, where the courtyard Supreme recently included it in an investigation for its role in this insurrection. Infrastructures, invaluable works of art and furniture that is part of the national heritage were destroyed during the riots. More than 1,100 people are still in a state of arrest for acts qualified as “terrorism” by the Lula government, in post since the 1 er January.
“Everyone commits some errors”
“Everyone makes some mistakes at home”, including members of the government, said Bolsonaro, explaining that during his mandate, “every day were Mondays”.
If Joe Biden offered his “flawless support” to Brazilian democracy in a call to Lula, some elected officials want Washington to go further and expel Jair Bolsonaro from the United States. “Interior terrorists and fascists should not be allowed to use the Trump model to undermine democracy,” the elected democrat Joaquin Castro wrote on Twitter. “Bolsonaro must not have the cottage offered in Florida, where he hides to not have to account for his crimes,” he added.
The national security adviser of the White House, Jake Sullivan, said that the United States had not received a request from Brazil about Jair Bolsonaro, but that they would deal with such a “seriously” request .
Jair Bolsonaro, which remained isolated and almost silent during his last weeks of mandate, has already condemned on Twitter the “depredations and invasions of public buildings”, and declared in an interview with CNN Brazil that he initially intended to return In the country at the end of the month, but should finally come back before that, for health reasons.
He was indeed hospitalized on Sunday January 8 in Florida for an intestinal “grip”, a still consequence of the stabbing attack on which he was the victim in September 2018. He left two days later. But if he does not intend to extend out in Florida, Mr. Bolsonaro did not fail to meet many of his supporters in this US state where nearly a quarter of Brazilians in the United States reside.