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Brazil summons Hungarian envoy to explain why Bolsonaro hid in embassy
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/jair-bolsonaro-hiding-embassy
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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.
Bolsonaro, who lost power in late 2022 after being beaten in the presidential election by his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is facing a series of criminal investigations relating to claims that he faked Covid vaccination records, sought to siphon off expensive foreign gifts and, most seriously, that he plotted to topple the government of his successor.
Two close aides, Marcelo Costa Câmara and Filipe Martins, were arrested and addresses linked to powerful former members of Bolsonaro’s administration searched.
Four days later, at 9.34pm on Monday 12 February, a black saloon car appeared at the gate of Hungary’s embassy in Brazil, according to the images obtained by the New York Times.
In 2022, Áñez was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of helping orchestrate an alleged 2019 coup that brought her to power after the fall of President Evo Morales.
“Bolsonaro’s attempt to hide himself in the embassy is a classic motive for preventive detention,” Augusto de Arruda Botelho, the former national secretary of justice, tweeted
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