Supreme orders Fátima de Tubarão to serve sentence for involvement in acts of January 8th

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), determined, last Wednesday (30), that the Bolsonarista Maria de Fátima Mendonça Jacinto de Souza, known as Fátima de Tubarão, arrested for involvement in the violent acts of 8 January 2023, begin serving his sentence, initially in a closed regime.

Fátima was sentenced in August this year to 17 years in prison for the crimes of violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup d’état, armed criminal association, qualified damage and deterioration of listed property.

Because it was judged by the STF, the criminal action against the 69-year-old woman no longer has the possibility of appeal. Moraes ordered that the Bolsonarista undergo medical examinations before the execution of her sentence begins and that the period she was in preventive detention be deducted from the final sentence.

The elderly woman, from Tubarão, in the south of Santa Catarina, was arrested on January 27, 2023, during the third phase of Operation Lesa Pátria, which investigated those responsible for financing, fomenting and promoting coup attacks in Brasília (DF). She has been in preventive detention since then in Criciúma (SC).

Fátima appeared in a video saying that she was “breaking everything”, that she would “take Xandão” and that she defecated in one of the bathrooms of the Supreme Court building. In court, the elderly woman confirmed the act, claiming that she did not know who owned the room, only that the bathrooms downstairs were occupied.

In the video, she also shouts: “Let’s go to war! It’s war!” During the interrogation, the Bolsonaro activist explained that she had merely repeated what the crowd shouted amid the confusion, motivated, according to her, by fear of the situation, and denied any intention of inciting violent actions with the phrase.

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