Bolsonaro convicted, sentenced to 27 years in prison for the Brazilian Supreme Court panel for trying a coup d’etat

A panel of judges of the Brazilian Supreme Court condemned former President Jair Bolsonaro 27 years and three months in prison on Thursday after condemning him trial remain in office despite its electoral defeat of 2022.

Bolsonaro, who has always denied having acted, It is currently under house arrest In Brasilia. You can appeal the failure.

Four of the five judges who reviewed the case in the panel found the extreme right -wing politician of five positions, in a ruling that will deepen political divisions and was expected to cause a violent reaction of the United States government. It makes Bolsonaro the first former Brazilian president to be convicted of trying a coup d’etat.

The extreme right politician ruled Brazil between 2019 and 2022.

President Trump said hours later that he was “very unhappy” with the conviction. Speaking to journalists as he left the White House, he said he always found that Bolsonaro was “outstanding.”

The conviction, he added, is “very bad for Brazil.”

And later, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said in his account X that the Trump administration will respond accordingly to this witch hunt. ”

The sentence does not mean that he will immediately go to prison. The court panel now has up to 60 days to publish the ruling. Once he does, Bolsonaro’s lawyers have five days to present clarification motions. Bolsonaro’s lawyers have said they will appeal the verdict before the complete Supreme Court of 11 judges.

Bolsonaro has not attended the judicial procedures, and on Thursday morning he was seen in the garage of his house, but did not talk to the journalists.

The Cármen Lúcia judge said Thursday that he was convinced by the evidence that the Office of the Attorney General presented against the former president.

“He is the instigator, the leader of an organization that orchestrated all possible movements to maintain or seize power,” he said.

On Wednesday, Judge Luiz Fux did not agree and voted to acquit the former president of all positions.

The trial has been followed by a divided society, with people supporting the process against the former president, while others still support him. Some have taken to the streets to support the extreme right -wing leader who maintains that he is being politically persecuted.

Bolsonaro’s trial received renewed attention after Mr. Trump linked a 50% rate on imported Brazilian goods To the legal situation of his ally, calling him a “witch hunt.” Observers say that the United States could announce new sanctions against Brazil after trial, further struggling their fragile diplomatic relations.

Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who supervises the case, said Tuesday that Bolsonaro was the leader of a plot of blows and a criminal organization, and voted in favor of condemning him.

The legislator Eduardo Bolsonaro, one of the children of the former president, speaks on Thursday about his father on his social media platforms. But instead of mentioning his father’s conviction, he pressed for his amnesty, which he is looking for in Congress.

“It’s time to do nothing less than right, just,” he said.

Fux, in his dissident opinion on Wednesday, did not agree with De Moraes and the other two judges.

“No one can be punished for cogitation,” said Fux. “A coup d’etat does not result from isolated acts or individual demonstrations that lack coordination, but from the actions of organized groups, equipped with resources and strategic capacity to confront and replace the titular power.”

The earliest Thursday, Lúcia also voted to condemn Bolsonaro for organized crime in relation to the alleged coup attempt.

Lucia allowed De Moraes to interrupt his vote and play several videos that showed Bolsonaro in front of thousands of supporters between 2021 and 2023 urging him to leave the Supreme Court. De Moraes also showed images of some destruction within the headquarters of the Court after the riots of January 8, 2023.

Bolsonaro faced accusations that tried to cling illegally to power after his 2022 electoral defeat before the current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Tax Bolsonaro loaded With positions, including the attempt to organize a coup d’etat, be part of an armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the rule of democratic law, in addition to being involved in violence and representing a serious threat to state assets and the inheritance listed.

“Bolsonaro tried a coup d’etat in this country, and there are hundreds of evidence,” Lula said early in an interview with the local television band, before trial.

Despite his legal problems, Bolsonaro is still a powerful political player in Brazil.

The extreme right had been forbidden to run for the position until 2030 in a separate case. He is expected to choose an heir who probably challenges Lula next year.

The ruling can push Bolsonaro’s allied legislators to look for some amnesty for him through Congress.

The former conflict leader could now face greater pressure to choose a political heir to probably challenge Lula in the general elections next year.

“There is a God in heaven who sees everything, who loves justice and hates iniquity,” wrote former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro on social networks.

• Brazil
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• Jair Bolsonaro