Brazil's Attorney General contradicts the Federal Police and requests the dismissal of the investigation against Bolsonaro for associating the Covid-19 vaccine with HIV.
Lindôra Araújo believes that the Federal Police did not gather evidence that Bolsonaro's statements about the Covid-19 vaccine caused alarm among the population or that, at least, they had the capacity to do so.
247 - The Attorney General's Office (PGR) defended, this Thursday (16), the dismissal of the inquiry in the Supreme Federal Court (STF) that Jair Bolsonaro (PL) was being investigated for falsely associating the Covid-19 vaccine with HIV. A information It's from the UOL portal.
The statement was signed by the Deputy Attorney General, Lindôra Araújo, and sent to Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court. Lindôra's opinion contradicts... Federal police, which concluded in December 2022 that Bolsonaro disseminated false information. and committed incitement to crime and the misdemeanor of causing alarm by announcing a non-existent disaster or danger.
The Deputy Attorney General argued that "despite the evidence gathered during the investigation, it was not demonstrated that the statements made by the then President of the Republic, with the participation of Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid [also investigated by the Federal Police], produced or had the capacity to produce panic or unrest among the population."
"In other words, during the criminal investigation, no evidence was gathered to suggest that the statements made by Jair Messias Bolsonaro caused alarm among the population or that, at least, they had the capacity to do so," adds the opinion from the Attorney General's Office. "The questioned statements, if they deserve criticism, should be subject to political and electoral debate, but not criminal debate, given its fragmentary nature and only applicable when there is a clear violation or endangerment of a relevant legal interest."
"Therefore, the investigated conduct, at least with the evidence gathered, did not meet the requirements of the criminal offenses identified by the police authority," Lindôra concluded.
According to UOL, since, in the magistrate's view, there are no further investigations to be carried out, the Deputy Attorney General "decided that the inquiry should be closed due to the lack of just cause for filing charges and the atypical nature of the investigated conduct."
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