Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Monday in Sao Paulo and will undergo two operations on Tuesday linked to the after-effects of a stabbing attack, his entourage announced. Bolsonaro, 68, had already been operated on several times in recent years since this attack in the middle of the 2018 electoral campaign. The former far-right leader was stabbed in the abdomen by an insane person during a crowd bath , a month before the election that he ended up winning.
A convoy of vehicles with tinted windows arrived early Monday afternoon at the Vila Nova Star hospital, a posh private clinic in Sao Paulo, noted a journalist from the France-Presse agency. This clinic had confirmed just before that Jair Bolsonaro would be hospitalized there.
“We have arrived in Sao Paulo, pray for the surgery that will take place tomorrow,” former First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram, a message illustrated with a photo of her with her husband, smiling, in a vehicle.
Fabio Wajngarten, close collaborator of the ex-president, explained to AFP that the two operations planned for Tuesday aim to remedy the after-effects of the 2018 attack, such as intestinal obstructions, hernias or adhesions. fabrics.
Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in the same clinic for two days at the end of August, for “routine examinations” linked to these complications. Outside the hospital, two anti-Bolsonaro activists held up signs demanding his incarceration.
“Bolsonaro, you are a coward, get out of this hospital and take responsibility for the crimes you have committed! », shouted one of them. The former president, who left power in December 2022, is the subject of several investigations. He was also declared ineligible for a period of eight years in June for disinformation about the electoral system.
Jair Bolsonaro and his wife are notably targeted by an investigation by the Federal Police into the alleged misappropriation of gifts offered by foreign countries during his mandate (2019-2022), in particular jewelry resold by close collaborators.
