Brazil summons Hungarian envoy to explain why Bolsonaro hid in embassy
Source: The Guardian
Brazil summons Hungarian envoy to explain why Bolsonaro hid in embassy
Former Brazil president spent two nights at legation after two close aides were detained in February over alleged coup plot
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Mon 25 Mar 2024 21.53 GMT
First published on Mon 25 Mar 2024 19.27 GMT
Brazil’s foreign ministry has summoned the Hungarian ambassador to explain why the South American country’s embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights “hiding” at Hungary’s embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies.
Security footage obtained by the New York Times showed that in early February – four days after two Bolsonaro aides were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Brazilian government – the rightwing populist took shelter in the embassy, a short drive from the presidential palace Bolsonaro once occupied.
The New York Times said Bolsonaro’s embassy stay suggested he was “seeking to leverage his friendship with a fellow far-right leader, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, into an attempt to evade the Brazilian justice system as he faces criminal investigations at home”.
On Monday Bolsonaro confirmed the report, telling the Brazilian website Metrópoles: “I won’t deny that I was in the embassy … I won’t say where else I’ve been. I have a circle of friends with some heads of state around the world. They are worried. I talk to them about matters in our country’s interest. Full stop. The rest is speculation,” he was quoted as saying.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/jair-bolsonaro-hiding-embassy
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Someone should reserve a small concrete island for him and his fascist lunatic aspiring dictator friends to infest.
