Brazilian Supreme Court Panels Sentences Bolsonaro To More Than 27 Years In Prison For Coup Attempt

Brasılıa, Brazil (AP) – A panel of the Supreme Court of Brazilian justice, despite the defeat of 2022 election defeat, sentenced to remain a coup to remain in office after the former president Jair Bolsonaro’yu 27 years and three months imprisoned.

Bolsonaro, who always refuses to do wrong, is currently under house arrest in Brasilia. May appeal the decision.

Four of the five justice, who reviewed the case in the panel, found the extreme right politicians guilty of five points in a decision that would deepen political divisions and create a reaction from the US government. Bolsonaro is the first former Brazilian president who was convicted of trying a coup.

The US government immediately criticized its decision and warned that it would respond.

US President Donald Trump said the conviction was “very unhappy”. When leaving the White House, he talked to journalists and said that he always found Bolsonaro “extraordinary”.

And then US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in his X account that the Trump government would “respond to this witch hunt”.

Trump’s management is already a 50% tariff in imported Brazilian goodsHe said there was a reaction to Bolsonaro.

The sentence does not mean that he will go to jail immediately. The court panel has up to 60 days to publish the decision. Bolsonaro’s lawyers have five days to take action for the explanation.

Cármen Lúcia, one of the justice, said that he was convinced of the Prosecutor’s Office with evidence against the former president. “He is a provocative, the leader of an organization that regulates every movement that is possible to protect or seize power,” he said.

The eldest son of the former president, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, said that the conviction in X was “supreme persecution ve and that this date would be on the right.

While the hearing supported people against the former president, the others were still pursuing a divided society that supports it. Some went to the streets to support the far -right leader who claimed to have been politically persecuted.

After connecting to Trump, Bolsonaro’s hearing was renewed. 50% tariff in imported Brazilian goods To the legal status of the ally ” witch hunt. “Observer says that the US can announce new sanctions against Brazil after the trial, and that it may even force its fragile diplomatic relations.

Justice Alexandre de MoraesKim, who supervised the case, was the leader of Bolsonaro’s coup plan and a criminal organization on Tuesday. Voting in favor of conviction he.

One of the sons of the former president, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, on Thursday, speaks on his father on social media platforms. However, instead of mentioning his father’s conviction, he pushed his forgiveness through the congress.

“It’s time to do something less than the right thing,” he said.

Fux did not agree with Moraes and two other justice, according to his opposition view on Wednesday.

“Nobody can be punished for Cogitation, Fux said Fux. “A coup is not due to insulated actions or individual demonstrations deprived of individual demonstrations, but rather from the actions of organized groups equipped with resources and strategic capacity to confront and change the power in the task.”

In the early hours of Thursday, Lúcia voted to condemn Bolsonaro for an organized crime regarding the alleged coup attempt.

Lúcia allowed de Moraes to cut off the votes and to play a few videos in front of Bolsonaro to leave the Supreme Court in front of thousands of supporters between 2021 and 2023. De Moraes also showed some images of demolition within the court’s headquarters after the rebellions. January 8, 2023.

Bolsonaro encountered accusations he was trying to come illegally. 2022 Election defeat opposite President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Prosecutors accused Bolsonaro of census such as trying to start a coup and being a part of an armed punishment organization, violently abolished the democratic rule of law, as well as violence and pose a serious threat to the existence of the state and listed the inheritance.

“Bolsonaro tried a coup in this country and there are hundreds of evidence, L Mula said before the hearing in an interview with the local TV band on Thursday.

Despite his legal problems, Bolsonaro continues to be a strong political player in Brazil.

The far -right politician had previously started to work in a separate case until 2030. Lula is expected to choose a heir to challenge Lula next year.

The decision may push Bolsonaro’s allied deputies to seek an amnesty through the Congress.

After the court panel Bolsonaro’s discussions on the penalty, the safe leader may encounter increasing pressure to choose a political heir to challenge Lula in the next year’s general elections.

The old first lady Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on social media, “There is a god who sees everything in heaven, loves justice and hates injustice.”

Sá Pessoa reported from Sao Paulo. Washington contributed to this report, the Associated Press writer Darlene Supilville on DC.