Brazilian politician attacks police | BNC
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Date: 2022-10-25

Brazilian politician attacks police | BNC

Brazil’s toxic presidential election has taken a surreal and violent turn after a radical ally of the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, used hand grenades and a rifle to attack federal police officers as they attempted to arrest him.

Roberto Jefferson, a former congressman who has called Bolsonaro a “personal friend”, launched the attack on Sunday after police arrived at his home in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro. Two officers reportedly sustained non-fatal shrapnel wounds, while photographs showed a federal police vehicle riddled with bullet holes.

“I shot at the car and close to them,” the rightwing radical admitted in an online video, claiming he was resisting arrest “in the name of freedom, democracy and family values”.

Jefferson was jailed in August 2021 as part of an investigation into anti-democratic social media mobs but was granted house arrest in January. On Sunday, a supreme court judge ordered the 69-year-old be returned to prison after he published a vulgar and threatening broadside against a female member of the court in which he likened her to a sex worker and Lucifer.

When a small group of federal police officers arrived at Jefferson’s door late on Sunday morning to execute the warrant, Jefferson fought back.

Bolsonaro’s initial response to the violence was halfhearted, with the president calling the attack on police “an unfortunate incident”. But a nationwide outcry appeared to force him to harden his stance for fear of alienating moderate voters before next Sunday’s election run-off with the former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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