Brazil’s Federal Police carry out an operation against Bolsonaro’s deputy opposition leader in Congress

This Thursday, the Brazilian Federal Police (PF) launched a new phase of Operation Lesa Patria, an ongoing operation aimed at dismantling far-right radical networks linked to the brutal attacks carried out in Brasília on January 8 last year by followers of Jair Bolsonaro, whose main target was is the leader of the opposition to the government of Lula da Silva, federal deputy Carlos Jordi.

Federal Police officers arrived at around 6:00 (9:00 in Lisbon) at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia and broke down the door of Jordi’s office, proceeding to execute one of the search and arrest warrants against the parliamentarian, who, however, did not receive an order for his arrest . At the same time, other federal agents went to Jordy’s apartment, dragged him out of bed and began another search of the residence, collecting, as they did in Congress, documents, cell phones, computers and other items that would later be analyzed for evidence. .about the parliamentarian’s involvement in extremist groups.

Carlos Jordi, who is in his second term as a federal deputy and is a provisional candidate for mayor of the important city of Niteroi in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the municipal elections next October, complained on his social networks this Thursday. Morning fair when he was awakened by police “with a rifle (military rifle) in his face.” According to what he said in a video on social networks, the actions of the Federal Police, sanctioned by the judge of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes, are completely illegal, without any legal basis and an authoritarian act to prove the claims that he himself has the fact that Brazil has been living under a dictatorship since Lula da Silva took office on January 1, 2024 after defeating Jair Bolsonaro in the October 2022 presidential elections.

Carlos Jordi, very active on social networks, is one of the most radical wing of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s followers. called him a “tramp”, and STF himself. The parliamentarian often engages in polemics with politicians and figures who do not support his extremist statements, and denies the official version of the Bolsonista attacks in Brasilia on January 8, 2024, when Congress, the STF and the presidential palace were vandalized and vandalized. they were an attempt to overthrow the newly installed Lula da Silva.

According to the Federal Police investigation, Jordi was one of the supporters of the far-right radicals who, after the presidential defeat of Jair Bolsonaro, blocked dozens of roads throughout Brazil because they did not recognize the election results. As for the PF, Jordi also supported and encouraged right-wing extremists who, after Bolsonaro’s electoral failure, camped outside barracks in dozens of cities, demanding that the Armed Forces carry out a coup d’état to return power to Bolsonaro and start a new dictatorship.