Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the target of a wave of allegations of wrongdoing that could land him in jail, was admitted this Wednesday to the luxurious Vila Nova Star hospital in southern Sao Paulo. According to a post on social media by one of his lawyers, Fabio Weingarten, the ex-president’s hospitalization has already been scheduled and is intended for preventive examinations.
According to Weingarten, Bolsonaro wants to assess the state of his health, especially in the abdominal area, where he received a stab wound in 2018, due to which he has since had to undergo four operations. Bolsonaro checked into Vila Nova Star at 8:40 am local time and 12:40 pm in Lisbon and is estimated to be released tomorrow, Thursday, time yet to be determined.
The hospitalization of Jair Bolsonaro attracted a lot of attention in the press and political circles, which gave rise to a wide variety of speculations. Mainly because it came one day after the former ruler was twice called to the federal police to give two statements on the next 31st regarding the trials in which he is being investigated.
This Tuesday, federal police initially called him to corporate headquarters in Brasilia to explain his involvement in a WhatsApp group in which businessmen formulated a coup d’état late last year to try to prevent Lula da Silva’s inauguration. , the winner of the presidential election in October, and in which messages from him were found.
A few hours later, Bolsonaro was called by the same federal police to testify in another trial, this time along with his wife Michelle Bolsonaro and several advisers, about the scandal of gifts in gold and diamonds offered to Brazil by other countries and which he undertook for the United States after leaving the presidency and what assistants they sold. The coincidence of going to the hospital the day after these two subpoenas led many people to think that this could be a tactic to victimize themselves and not even show up to testify, citing some kind of health problem. It is true that Bolsonaro is still dealing with the aftermath of the stab wound he received in 2018 during a presidential event in the city of Juiz de Fora, but it is equally true that he has always used that stab wound as an excuse to try win. the sympathy and pity of the people in moments of political instability, when he ended up in the hospital shortly after a more serious complaint against him appeared.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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