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The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, stated this Sunday in Johannesburg that his predecessor in the Presidency, Jair Bolsonaro, "will serve the sentence that Justice determined", without assessing the decision of the Supreme Court that this Saturday put him in preventive prison.
"The first thing is that I do not comment on the Supreme Court's decision. Justice made a decision. He was judged, he had every right to the presumption of innocence," Lula said at a press conference after the G20 Leaders' Summit, which was held since this Saturday in the South African city, closed.
"It was practically two and a half years of investigation, of plea bargaining, of trial. In other words, Justice decided, it is decided. He will serve the sentence that Justice determined, and everyone knows what he did. Therefore, I have no further comments to make," Lula added.
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Lula also reacted to the comment by the U.S. President, Donald Trump, who called Bolsonaro's arrest "very bad", and downplayed the impact of these events on the relationship between Brazil and the United States. "I think it has nothing to do with it. Trump needs to know that we are a sovereign country and that our Justice decides. And what is decided here, is decided," Lula concluded. Bolsonaro was preventively arrested this Saturday due to a "concrete" risk of flight and a "threat to public order", on the eve of beginning to serve the 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup d'état. The far-right leader had been under house arrest for almost four months, but early this Saturday morning the agents arrested him and took him, without handcuffs or the presence of the media, to the headquarters of the Federal Police of Brasilia. The former president awaited the days at his residence in Brasilia for the Supreme Court to order the execution of the sentence in which he was found guilty of "leading" a coup plot after losing the 2022 elections to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Brazil unanimously rejected the first appeals at the beginning of the month, so the fulfillment of the sentence was imminent. However, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the process, anticipated that moment and decreed his arrest on an unusual day, a Saturday. Bolsonaro (who was president between 2019 and 2023) will remain confined in a special room of about 12 square meters, equipped with a bed, private bathroom, window, television, air conditioning and a small refrigerator, according to local media.
