Alexandre de Moraes gives the Attorney General's Office 15 days to respond to Bolsonaro's alleged crimes during the pandemic.
The crimes include: epidemic resulting in death; violation of preventive sanitary measures; endangering the life or health of others; incitement to crime; bodily harm; and homicide.
247 - Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has given the Attorney General's Office 15 days to respond to a complaint alleging six crimes against Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for his handling of the pandemic.
The criminal complaint reached the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in early October of last year, but ended up being dismissed on the grounds that the same events were already being investigated by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) based on the final report of the Covid Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI).
With the closure of the investigations opened as a result of the work of the parliamentary commission, which were archived without the president being indicted, lawyers Leonardo David Quintiliano and Adriana Cecilio Marco dos Santos returned to the Supreme Federal Court to try to reopen the case.
The final report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) charged Bolsonaro with nine crimes. To date, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) has stated that it has not found sufficient evidence to indict Bolsonaro.
The Attorney General's Office understood that Bolsonaro's behavior had "low harmfulness." The lawyers argue that, for so-called "abstract danger crimes," the Public Prosecutor's Office had been considering that there is no need to demonstrate "actual danger." Another argument is that the Attorney General's Office did not analyze the accusations of homicide and bodily harm against the president. These charges were not included in the final report of the Covid CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry).
The crimes attributed to Bolsonaro in the lawyers' representation are: epidemic resulting in death; violation of preventive sanitary measures; endangering the life or health of others; incitement to crime; bodily harm; and homicide.
With Moraes' order, the Attorney General's Office will need to say whether it sees grounds to investigate Bolsonaro, according to a report in the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo.
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