Bolsonaro leaves the beach house on a boat when he sees federal police arrive. The target of the searches was the son. The target of the operation was Carlos Bolsonaro, his father’s political coordinator and a central figure in attacks on opponents.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hurriedly left the beach house where he is vacationing by speedboat at dawn this Monday in Angra dos Reis, on the southern coast of Rio de Janeiro state, after seeing federal police arrive at a stationary and motionless place. imagine that he was about to be arrested by agents who were in fact only conducting a search and arrest against his son Carlos. Noticing the movement of federal agents in front of the house, Bolsonaro and his three political sons boarded a boat parked at the rear of the residence, which provides direct access to the sea.

Some time later, Jair Bolsonaro and his three politically connected sons, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro and Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro, returned to the territory where federal agents were searching. Once news of the four’s hasty departure reached the press, sources connected to the former president denied that he had fled the police operation for fear of being arrested and stated that the former president and his children had actually left the property to go on a search. walk in the morning (it was about six in the morning) and that, as they were at the rear of the house, they did not notice the arrival of the police, but returned as soon as they were informed.

It is speculated in Brazilian political circles that the former president and his children actually fled when they saw the police arrive, imagining that they would be arrested in the numerous cases they face in various courts of justice, but they returned to the property when they were informed that Monday’s operation was merely a search and seizure and there was no arrest warrant. In fact, the operation was aimed only at Carlos Bolsonaro, the great coordinator of his father’s political life and a central figure in attacks on opponents during the four years that Jair Bolsonaro was president of Brazil, whom federal police suspect of accessing classified information. information illegally obtained by ABIN, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency.

Bolsonaro has never hidden his real fear of being arrested from anyone, and this has already forced him to flee Brazil once, on December 30, 2022. Two months after losing the presidential election to Lula da Silva and the day before the end of his term, Bolsonaro took the presidential plane and flew from Brasilia to the United States, where he stayed until the end of March 2023 precisely because he was afraid that after the change of government he would be arrested.