The video is less than two minutes long and shows ex-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro chatting with people who appear to be supporters.
In an extract posted on Monday, February 16, by the information site MetropolisesMr. Bolsonaro who is in Florida after leaving Brazil on December 30, two days before the handover with his left-wing successor Lula, looks back on the January 8 ransacking of places of power in Brasilia by far-right supporters .
“I regret what happened”said Mr. Bolsonaro, describing these events as“incredible”. That day, thousands of people identified as Bolsonarists invaded the seat of the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court, refusing to recognize the result of the presidential election giving Lula the winner.
On the sequence broadcast on Monday and which, according to Metropolises, was filmed “at the door of the house where he is staying in Orlando, USA”, supporters advise him not to return to Brazil, where the Supreme Court recently included him in an investigation for his role in this insurrection. Infrastructure, priceless works of art and furniture that are part of the national heritage were destroyed during the riots. More than 1,100 people are still under arrest for acts qualified as “terrorism” by the Lula government, in office since 1er January.
“Everyone makes a few mistakes”
“Everyone makes a few mistakes at home”including members of the government, said Mr. Bolsonaro, explaining that during his mandate, “everyday was Monday”.
If Joe Biden offered his “unwavering support” to Brazilian democracy in an appeal to Lula, some elected Americans want Washington to go further and expel Jair Bolsonaro from the United States. “Domestic terrorists and fascists must not be allowed to use the Trump model to undermine democracy”wrote on Twitter the elected democrat Joaquin Castro. “Bolsonaro must not have the shelter offered in Florida, where he hides so as not to have to answer for his crimes”he added.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the United States has not received a request from Brazil about Jair Bolsonaro, but will deal with such a request ” seriously “.
Jair Bolsonaro, who remained isolated and almost silent during his last weeks in office, has already condemned on Twitter the “looting and invasions of public buildings”and said during an interview with CNN Brazil that he initially intended to return to the country at the end of the month, but would ultimately have to return before then, for health reasons.
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He was indeed hospitalized on Sunday January 8 in Florida for a “adhesion” intestinal, another consequence of the stabbing attack of which he was the victim in September 2018. He came out of it two days later. But if he does not intend to drag on in Florida, Mr. Bolsonaro did not fail to meet many of his supporters in this American state where nearly a quarter of Brazilians in the United States reside.