PT leadership in the House asks Eduardo Bolsonaro’s pre -trial detention
“This is an articulated and confessed offensive, whose execution remains ongoing, including new developments abroad,” he said.
According to the document, Eduardo Bolsonaro “is outside the national territory, in a country with which he maintains political alliances and where he has been promoting systematic attacks on the Supreme Court, with the aim of intimidating and weakening his rapporteur.”
“Eduardo Bolsonaro publicly stated that he does not intend to return to Brazil until Minister Alexandre de Moraes is sanctioned by the US government-which is not only the intention of subtracting the jurisdiction, but a challenge deliberated to the Brazilian justice system,” he said.
“In addition, there is a concrete risk to procedural instruction and public order, in view of the strategy of institutional destabilization through external diplomatic pressure. The represented uses his position and political influence to foster the delegitimation of the Supreme Court and interfere with the judgments of the coup plot. The permanence in freedom contributes to the continued coup, with the potential to obstruct in progress investigations and intimidate magistrates and witnesses”; stated.
“Given this, it is required, based on Article 312 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the decree of the pre-trial detention of Eduardo Bolsonaro, in order to guarantee public order, ensure the application of criminal law and preserve the authority and independence of the Brazilian judiciary,” he adds.
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