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“I Respect the Law” Riots Avoid Responsibility
U.S. “Couldn’t accept official extradition request”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is staying in the United States, was revealed on Instagram on the 9th (local time) lying in a hospital bed in Orlando, Florida. Archyde.com Yonhap News
In Brazil on the 8th (local time), supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress and others, and public opinion is rising within the US Congress that former President Bolsonaro, who is staying in the United States, should be returned to his home country. House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez linked the riots in Brazil on the 9th to the situation in which supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington two years ago, saying, “The United States must not provide shelter to authoritarians who have promoted domestic terrorism. Bolsonaro needs to be returned to Brazil.”
Former President Bolsonaro entered the United States on a visa issued to heads of state and diplomats at the end of December last year, before the inauguration ceremony of President Luis Inacio Lula Dasiouba. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said people who entered the country on a foreign official visa must apply for a change of immigration status if they leave the country within 30 days or are no longer in government service.
The US government has not yet made a clear statement on the Bolsonaro visa or India. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on the same day that he had yet to receive an official request from Brazil to extradite former President Bolsonaro.
Meanwhile, former President Bolsonaro posted a picture of himself lying on a hospital bed in Orlando, Florida, on Twitter on the 10th and said, “I am being treated for complications related to an old stab wound.” His wife posted a picture of her husband lying in a hospital bed on Instagram the day before and said that he had been hospitalized due to the aftereffects of being stabbed by a weapon during the 2018 presidential campaign. The day Bolsonaro was hospitalized was the day after his supporters rioted.
Bolsonaro took no responsibility for the riots, saying on his Twitter account after the riots “I have always respected and defended the law, democracy, transparency and our sacred freedoms throughout my tenure.”
After losing the Brazilian presidential election last October, Bolsonaro refused to accept the result and left for the United States just before the inauguration of President Lula. As he is being investigated for various corruption charges and poor handling of the Corona 19 pandemic, it is interpreted as an intention to avoid investigation.