The militiaman who laughs last has laughed first before.

By Florestan Fernandes, from Journalists for Democracy - With the Supreme Court's decision to keep the investigation into the millionaire financial transactions of the driver of the president's eldest son in the Rio de Janeiro courts, the Bolsonaro clan has no choice but to remain entrenched in the Einstein hospital. With the denial of the Public Prosecutor's request to suspend the investigations, "Flavinho's" situation could become more complicated.

For example, how will he hide the intimate and dangerous relationships he cultivated for over a decade with the leaders of Rio's militias? Two of them are suspected of loan sharking, land grabbing, extortion of residents and merchants, and bribery. Major Ronald Paulo Pereira, arrested in January by the Civil Police, was decorated by then-deputy Flávio Bolsonaro with commendation.

Former BOPE captain Adriano Magalhães da Nobrega, nicknamed Gordinho, considered by the Public Prosecutor's Office to be the head of the Escritório do Crime militia group and suspected of involvement in the assassination of councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes, is currently a fugitive. Gordinho was also honored at the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly (Alerj). Gordinho's mother and wife worked in Flávio Bolsonaro's office.

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According to COAF (Council for Financial Activities Control), Raimunda, the militia member's mother, deposited 4,6 reais into the millionaire account of Flávio's driver, former captain Fabrício Queiroz. If it is confirmed that the bullets fired at Marielle were indeed from weapons belonging to militia members linked to Adriano Gomes, they could ricochet and fatally wound both father and son of the clan. But this will depend heavily on the investigations by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro. Will they have the freedom to do so?

Will the clan's interests truly not prevail over due process? Amidst the potential conflict, Bolsonaro conducts his business from one of the rooms at Albert Einstein Hospital. The same place where, not long ago, Fabrício Queiroz danced with laughter alongside his daughters, almost mockingly, for having escaped giving testimony to the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor's Office. In Brazil, where impunity reigns, he who laughs last has also laughed first.

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