Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, said he had seen “no concrete elements” indicating that former president Jair Bolsonaro, spending two days at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, intended to obtain “diplomatic asylum to escape from country and, consequently, jeopardize the ongoing criminal investigation.”
On the other hand, the minister followed the opinion of the Attorney General of the Republic Paulo Gonet and maintained the precautionary measures previously imposed on the former head of the executive: ban on maintaining contact with other persons under investigation and on leaving the country, with the delivery of passports.
In an order signed on Tuesday 23rd, Moraes also underlined that embassies, despite enjoying special protection, are not considered “extensions of foreign territory”. The minister then underlined that he does not see, in this case, “any violation” of the precautionary measure of the “ban on leaving the country”.
Gonet had told Moraes that Bolsonaro’s stay at the Hungarian embassy “does not constitute a violation” of any of the precautions imposed on the former president. “The prospect of asking for refuge clashes with the evident lack of prerequisites of the institution of diplomatic asylum”, he observed.
Bolsonaro arrived on site on February 12, after posting a video appeal to supporters for the event that took place on Avenida Paulista on the 25th. Days earlier, his passport had been seized as part of Operation Tempus Veritatis.
When asked to comment on the case, Bolsonaro’s defense highlighted the politician’s agenda of commitments, “also in relation to foreign leaders aligned with the conservative profile”.
The former president’s lawyers argue that he “maintains the political agenda with the government of Hungary, with which he has a known alignment, which is why he has always maintained a close dialogue with the authorities of that country, dealing with political issues strategic international interests of interest to the conservative sector”.
“There are, therefore, no minimal reasons nor even a legal scenario which justify the hypothesis of any type of movement aimed at obtaining asylum at a foreign embassy or which indicate the intention to evade the judicial authority or to hinder, in any way, the application of criminal law”, argued Bolsonaro’s defense at the STF.
Source: Terra
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