The commission of legislators that investigates the government’s management during the pandemic raised its request to the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office.
The Senate commission investigating the Brazilian government’s management during the pandemic asked the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday to suspend access of President Jair Bolsonaro to his YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts until further notice.
The request comes after the far-right president mentioned false information on Thursday in a live connection that associates the anticovid vaccine with AIDS. The video was later removed from Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The video platform also decided to suspend Bolsonaro’s channel for a week. AFP.
The text, presented by the vice president of the Parliamentary Investigation Commission (CPI), Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, calls for “the precautionary suspension” of Bolsonaro’s access to his accounts “to avoid the destruction of evidence”.
It was approved shortly before the ICC members voted on the report recommending that the president be charged with a dozen crimes, including “crimes against humanity” for the government’s management of the pandemic, which claimed 605,000 lives. in Brazil.
In addition, it calls for the bankruptcy of the “telematic secrecy” so that Google, owner of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, provides information on the accounts of the president on its networks.
Bolsonaro, a skeptic of distancing measures and anticovid antigens, mentioned last Thursday the existence of false information that says that there are official reports from the United Kingdom Government that “suggest” that those fully vaccinated are developing the AIDS disease “Much faster than anticipated.”
The information was denied by the British Government in the service of fact-checking from AFP.
The text also asks that the president “retract on the national chain, denying the correlation between vaccination against the coronavirus and the development of AIDS,” and that he be punished with a fine of 50,000 reais (about $ 9,000) for each day of breach.
“We can no longer tolerate this type of behavior,” Rodrigues wrote in the text, in which he accuses Bolsonaro of “continuing with his policy of disinformation and generating an alleged social chaos.”
The mandatary is often accused of spreading false news. In August, the Supreme Federal Court decided to investigate him for crimes of “slander” and “incitement to crime”, among other causes related to his challenges without evidence of the electronic voting system in Brazil. (I)
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