Bolsonarists attack referee who sentenced Bolsonaro to disqualification at Rome airport

The President of Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who banned former President Jair Bolsonaro for eight years at the end of June, has been harassed by the former ruler’s followers at Italy’s Rome International Airport when an expected flight. A businessman associated with Bolsonaro’s party, upon seeing Moraes, began to insult him, and then hit the son of a magistrate who was trying to protect his father.

The businessman, identified by the Brazilian Federal Police as Roberto Mantovani Filho, his wife, children, son-in-law and other family members, who were waiting for a flight from Italy to return to Brazil, started screaming as soon as they saw the president of the electoral court. They called him a thug, a communist and a traitor, insinuating that the judge who also presides over Jair Bolsonaro in the Federal Supreme Court was bought to prosecute and convict the former president.

Alexander de Moraes, who traveled to the Italian city of Siena to participate in an international legal forum, was with his family and unaccompanied, and was waiting for a flight to another destination in Europe, remained calm, but the Brazilian family who pursued his insults did not stop, and in some At that moment, physical aggression was even shown against the son of the justice of the peace, who stood between him and the aggressor.

Upon arrival in São Paulo, Roberto Mantovani Filho was awaited by agents of the Brazilian Federal Police, but he refused to testify, denied insulting the TSE and STF judge, and was allowed to continue traveling to his city with his family as there was no arrest order. against him, no formal complaint, since Alexandre de Moraes is still in Europe. The PF has already requested from its attache at the Brazilian Embassy in Rome and from those in charge of the airport, pictures of the moment of the fighting in order to better define the scope of the investigation, but has already filed a case against the businessman for insult and threats.

Roberto Mantovani Filho hails from the city of Santa Barbara d’Oeste in the interior of the state of São Paulo and is affiliated with Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party, which, despite its liberal name, has become an extremist after first joining the president, family and allies. The businessman was a candidate for mayor of his city, but could not be elected, and on social networks, several people from the family express support for Jair Bolsonaro.