A judge of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil ordered another investigation against the president on Friday Jair Bolsonaro for spreading false news that related the anticovid vaccine with the AIDS disease in a video that was later removed by social networks.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ decision is in response to a request from the senatorial commission that accused Bolsonaro of serious crimes during the pandemic in October, and joins five other investigations that the president has open in the highest court and in justice electoral, for now without results.
The object of this new investigation, to be conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office, is a weekly live connection from October, in which the president cited false news about alleged official British government reports that “suggest” that those fully vaccinated against the coronaviruses are developing the AIDS disease “much faster than anticipated.”
The information was denied by the British government at the AFP fact-checking service and by the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, among other medical organizations.
The video was removed from Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. The video platform also decided to suspend Bolsonaro’s channel for a week.
The senators also asked at that time to suspend Bolsonaro’s access to his Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter accounts until further notice.
The president’s action “makes use of the modus operandi of mass disclosure schemes on social networks, revealing that it is essential to adopt measures to elucidate the facts under investigation,” the judge wrote in his decision.
In August, the STF decided to investigate him for the crimes of “slander” and “incitement to crime”, in a case related to his questioning without evidence of the electronic voting system in Brazil.
In addition, he has open investigations in the highest court to determine if he interfered with the Federal Police in investigations related to his relatives, if he prevaricated by not reporting an attempt to fraudulently purchase the Indian vaccine Coxavin and if he broke the law by disclosing on social networks a police report on an alleged attack on the electoral system, which was under summary secrecy.
If the Prosecutor’s Office finds evidence against Bolsonaro in some of those investigations, it must ask the STF to open a case against the president. But to do so, the highest court must obtain the approval of two-thirds of the Chamber of Deputies. In that case, Bolsonaro would be separated from his duties for six months, while his trial takes place.
But that scenario seems unlikely, given that the far-right president is considered close to the Attorney General, Augusto Aras, and has a consistent support base in Congress.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx