In 2018, there was debate about where Lula should have served his sentence. They put him in solitary confinement in the Federal Police in Curitiba. He was alone in a room with a bed, a table, and a bathroom. He could not leave her and to communicate with the jailers he had to knock on the door.
Seven years passed, and Lula was acquitted by the Supreme Court, elected President of the Republic and has two palaces in Brasilia. The case was renewed with the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro. He is under house arrest and sentenced to 27 years in prison by the STF.
Minister Alexandre de Moraes appears ready to test the prisoner, a seventy-year-old man whose health and nerves have been shaken. He will go to a light ward in Babuda Prison. You can’t do that to a former president. For those who hate Bolsonaro, a light winger would be too light. For those who like the former captain, he should serve his sentence at home as former president Fernando Collor does.
In any case, as with Lula, Brazil should look to the example France set to the world by imprisoning former President Philippe Pétain. He was an octogenarian marshal who assumed dictatorial powers after the German invasion in 1940. In a classic case of national treason, he was sentenced to death. He was placed in the castle, where he was given a room, with a small room attached to it. There, Petain died of natural causes in 1951.
Bolsonaro is a former president of the republic who came to power by popular vote. When he risks being sent into a routine similar to that of a collaborating marshal and a rapist, something is wrong.
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Flavio Bolsonaro is a candidate for the presidency of the Republic. As with all opposition candidates, his main opponent is Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, who he says he favors re-election.
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