Federal Police (PF) of Brazil requested permission from the Supreme Court to prosecute President Jair Bolsonaro for alleged crimes of disinformation about new coronavirus.
A police report, accessed by the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, states that the allegations Jair Bolsonaroaired on video in June 2021 about a suspected link between a vaccine against COVID-19 and the risk of contracting HIV could be classified as the misdemeanor of “provoking anxiety in others, announcing a non-existent danger.”
Also, Jair Bolsonaro disapproved of the use of masks, citing false information that more Spanish flu victims died from wearing masks than from the flu. In this sense federal police indicated that this action could be regarded as “incitement to crime”.
“This ‘incentive’ to violate a mandatory health measure refers to the behavior described in Article 286 of the Criminal Code, which is a typical criminal type of incitement to crime,” the police partial report says.
Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Barbosa Cid, who is a presidential aide, prepared this false information that the president deliberately spread.
“(Bolsonaro) distribute freely, voluntarily and knowingly information that does not correspond to the original text of its source, potentially generating an alarm about a non-existent danger for viewers, as well as encouraging them to violate sanitary standards,” the text says.
Lula remains solid in the polls
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a Workers’ Party (PT) candidate for Brazil’s presidency, could be elected in the first round of October’s election with 45 percent of the vote, according to a poll released last Monday.
A study by the FSB Institute for BTG Pactual gives the incumbent: Jair Bolsonaro, 34 percent of the vote intent, a difference of eleven points, four more than last week. This confirms what other polls say about the presidential election.
According to this study, Lula is the one who has risen four points in voting intention, while Bolsonaro remains stable with 34 percent support despite the start of Brazil’s bailout, a direct aid of 600 reais (about 115 euros). banners of Bolsonaro’s campaign.
Bolsonaro shows support for evangelicals
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a candidate for re-election, marched with thousands of evangelical believers in Rio de Janeiro last Saturday, 50 days before an election in which former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains the front-runner.
The leader of the far right took part in a new March for Jesus, as he did in other Brazilian cities a few weeks ago, in an attempt to secure the support of a powerful evangelical electorate ahead of the October 2 presidential election.
(According to Europa Press and AFP)
Source: RPP
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