Bolsonaro says he doesn't coordinate acts against the Supreme Court: "I only attend."
"I don't own any group, I don't coordinate anything. I just show up. I'm just going to show my support for you all," Jair Bolsonaro told supporters in an attempt to absolve himself of any responsibility for pro-coup acts.
247 - In an attempt to absolve himself of any responsibility for pro-coup acts, Jair Bolsonaro stated that he did not coordinate the protests against the Supreme Federal Court (STF) held in recent weekends in Brasília (DF).
"I don't own any group, I don't coordinate anything. I just show up. I'm just going to show my support for you all. It's a clean movement, for democracy, for law, for order. I just show up, I don't know anyone from these groups," he said in a conversation broadcast on his profile on [social media platform name]. Facebook.
Bolsonaro was at an event held in the federal capital this Sunday (31) which, among some of the banners, advocated the closure of the STF and intervention. Once again he violated recommendations from health authorities, by attending crowds of people and without a mask, even.
In Brazil's two main metropolitan areas - São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro - there were fascist acts, however, organized fan groups held demonstrations calling for democracy.
Bolsonaro's fondness for anti-democratic practices has worried institutions. message Among the ministers, the senior member of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Celso de Mello, stated that "'military intervention,' as intended by Bolsonaro supporters and other autocratic leaders who despise freedom and hate democracy, means nothing more, in Bolsonaro's newspeak, than the establishment, in Brazil, of a despicable and abject military dictatorship."