Journalist is on the run in the United States; he is investigated in 2 inquiries in the STF
The president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said on Monday (13.jun.2022) that he will propose to his team “studying” the granting of a pardon to Allan dos Santos. A fugitive in the United States, the journalist has an arrest warrant issued by the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
On April 21, the chief executive granted the constitutional grace to deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ). He was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison by the STF for statements against Supreme Court justices.
When asked by journalists if he could grant Allan a pardon as he did with Silveira, Bolsonaro said: “I will send you to study. And you can see, my grace is provided. When back there they gave a pardon to a lot of people for corruption, nobody said a thing”.
And completed: “In the case of Daniel, I already told you, I didn’t want to receive those criticisms he made, being from the Supreme Court. Now, the penalty for this is not prison, much less 9 years in prison, starting in a closed regime, canceling the mandate, ineligibility, fine, for God’s sake.”
The president also stated that he did not meet Allan dos Santos during the motorcycle ride in Orlando, USA. Bolsonaro went to the country to attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
“I didn’t meet him [Allan]. If I had found it, I would have told you, if he had appeared in front of me, I would have shaken his hand like the last, penultimate time I was there and I also shook his hand. I don’t see him as a criminal”said.
The journalist is investigated by the STF in 2 inquiries: that of the fake news and that of the undemocratic digital militias. He left Brazil in July 2021 after being searched and apprehended. In October, STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes ordered the preventive detention of Allan dos Santos and his extradition.
Bolsonaro also criticized the impeachment of then deputy Fernando Francischini. In early June, Minister Nunes Marques overturned the cassation, in an individual decision. By 3 to 2, the 2nd Panel of the STF overturned Marques’ decision, restoring the impeachment, stating that politicians cannot “act against democracy” when propagating fake news.
“What they did to Francischini, in my opinion, has no adjective. It is something that goes beyond the line of stupidity.”he said.
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