Brazilian police once again dismiss conspiracy theory over Bolsonaro’s 2018 stabbing

Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) have once again denied that the stabbing that nearly killed then presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on September 6, 2018 during a political event in a square in the town of Juiz de Fora in the state of Minas Gerais was participant in a conspiracy to prevent him from being elected. Confirmation that stabbing gunman Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, who has been in prison since the attack, acted alone is contained in a new report sent to the PF court, asking for the case to be dismissed.

In a report released on Tuesday, the Federal Police said that at the request of the Ministry of Justice, it reviewed the entire investigation and took new steps, including issuing search and arrest warrants, re-evaluating evidence, investigations and analyses. electronic equipment. Following this exhaustive re-analysis of the previous investigation, the new PF report states, the conclusion of the new procedures confirms the conclusion of the previous investigation, completed in May 2020, that Adelio acted alone, driven by a bout of delusional schizophrenia, and that the knife attack on Bolsonaro was not had organizers and was not part of a conspiracy to prevent his election.

Bolsonaro, who was Brazil’s president at the time of the original report in 2020, was furious at the initial finding that there was no conspiracy and that the attacker had mental problems, removing those responsible for the investigation from their posts and ordering a new investigation. The new investigation that preceded the one now concluded also indicated that the stabbing was an isolated act committed by a madman and that there was no political articulation behind it, but Bolsonaro continues to insist on the thesis that the serious attack he suffered was organized the left, as he said in the first version, or organized crime, as he said further, in both cases, to prevent him from being elected and to end what he considers the danger of communism in Brazil, in the first version, and the violence in the country, on Monday.

In today’s report, the Federal Police admits that one of the lawyers who was prepared to defend Adelio Bispo actually has ties to the PCC, Primeiro Comando da Capital in São Paulo, the largest and most bloody criminal organization in Brazil, but ensures that this organization It had nothing to do with the knife attack. Adelio has been in solitary confinement since 2018 in the maximum security prison of Campo Grande, the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state, a federal prison with a very harsh disciplinary regime, and his lawyers have tried in vain to detain him. he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital for treatment of what the justice system had assessed several years ago as dangerous and aggressive delusional schizophrenic disorder.

After the attack, Jair Bolsonaro had to undergo several operations to correct obstructions and abnormalities in the intestinal system caused by the stab wound and other equally invasive procedures to overcome the consequences caused by a series of interventions in the abdominal area. The knife wound, quite deep and which almost killed him, on the other hand, helped Jair Bolsonaro to be elected president, since the presidential elections in which Lula da Silva, then in prison for corruption, could not participate in the elections, took place a month after a brutal attack, and voters going to the polls were still rattled by the attack on a candidate who had not even been the favorite before.