He fought justice and the legal system won.
Sixty days following receiving a 27-year sentence for seeking to “annihilate” the nation's political system, former president Jair Bolsonaro now appears headed to prison.
The convicted instigator – who's been subject to house arrest in his estate while a set of legal procedures and appeals unfold – is broadly anticipated to be incarcerated in the coming days, amidst growing speculation that he will be moved to a notorious top-security facility.
Over Bolsonaro’s four-decade public life, the far-right former military man showed little compassion for the country's prison population.
“For what reason must we offer those dirtbags a easy time?” he previously wondered. “They ought to simply be messed, period. That's my opinion.”
At another time, Bolsonaro declared: “If you don’t want to end up there, all you have to do is not sexual assault, abduction or theft.”
However the prospect of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda maximum security prison in Brasília has appalled allies, four of whom this week inspected the facility in an apparent effort to discourage the judiciary from sending him there.
Senator Lucas, a lawmaker from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was among that group, claimed he predicted the 70-year-old figure to be incarcerated in the following week and a half and was concerned his destination could be Papuda.
The senator argued Bolsonaro’s acute intestinal ailments – the result of a life-threatening stabbing during the last political campaign – implied it would be hazardous to keep the one-time head of state there. “His [health] situation is extremely serious. He won’t be able to handle it if they move him to Papuda … It will be awful,” he added, who also worried about cramped cells and the condition of jail cuisine.
When inspecting Papuda, Lucas remembered witnessing cells holding forty inmates: “That’s practically one square metre per detainee.
“We conversed to the inmates and they complain, of course, of the horrible meals,” added the senator.
The senator isn't the lone figure speaking out ahead of the ex-leader's predicted incarceration.
Writing in a major newspaper, another ally, the ex- government official Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “flawless” political career and asserted Brazil was about to witness “the largest wrong in its history”.
“It represents an wrong that erodes the spirits of many of Brazilians,” the former minister said.
This could be true considering the substantial following Bolsonaro retains on the conservative side. But his predicted incarceration has also warmed the hearts of numerous individuals who think he should be imprisoned for planning to stop the incoming president from taking power – and additionally conspiring to have him murdered.
The lawmaker, a politician for the incumbent leader's Workers’ party, said: “Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be sent in a dungeon. No one wishes Bolsonaro to be put in segregation. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro not to be fed or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We desire him to get proper treatment – but respectful treatment behind bars. He cannot continue being his self-appointed guard for his entire life.”
The congressman noted how Bolsonaro allies, who have for a long time celebrating the severe handling of inmates, had abruptly become aware to their rights. “Only now has the extreme right – which has consistently argued that human rights should not be for criminals – opted to visit a jail to learn what conditions are really like,” he remarked.
“He is a criminal,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he deserved “humiliating, degrading conduct”.
Regardless of speculation that Bolsonaro could be transferred to Papuda, which now holds about thousands of prisoners, his expected location seems to be a close prison for law enforcement and other “special” inmates known as Papudinha (Minor Papuda).
His potential cell are considerably more pleasant than those in the main prison, although still a world away from the luxury Bolsonaro enjoyed while residing in the spectacular official residence, around 20 kilometers away.
As per sources, the accommodation Bolsonaro could anticipate occupy in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – about the size of vehicle spaces – and includes a 130 square foot bathroom with a water facility and a 130 square foot terrace. “He could be allowed to have a set and also a cooler in his quarters as long as they were supplied by his family,” information indicated.
The lawmaker criticized the rumoured plan to send the former leader to Papuda as “a form of retaliation” on the part of the supreme court judge who led Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his fate in the {
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