Jair Bolsonaro wrecked Brazil's presidential palace, TV report suggests

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Jair Bolsonaro wrecked Brazil’s presidential palace, TV report suggests

Journalist touring residence with new first lady is shown torn sofas, broken windows and art damaged by the sun

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 6 Jan 2023 16.09 GMT

Jair Bolsonaro’s wrecking of the Amazon made him a global outcast – but his acts of desecration were not limited to the rainforest.

A report by the Brazilian broadcaster GloboNews suggests that even the official presidential residence – a 1950s masterpiece by the architect Oscar Niemeyer – was defiled by the far-right politician during his four years in power.

One of the network’s leading political correspondents, Natuza Nery, took a tour of the Palácio da Alvorada (Palace of Dawn) on Thursday with Brazil’s new first lady, Rosângela Lula da Silva, and was unimpressed with what she saw.

“The overall state of the building, which is Brasília’s most iconic … is not good … and will require many repairs,” reported Nery, who was shown torn carpets and sofas, leaky ceilings, broken windows and jacaranda floorboards, and works of art damaged by the sun.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/06/brazil-first-lady-shaken-condition-presidential-palace-bolsonaro

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is definitely a first, isn't it? Killer loud, dirty fascist zombies. Monsters!

Bonsonaro has always looked and behaved like a monster, hasn't he?

What kind of beasts destroy the property belonging to the citizens who elected them?



As if the first part of the article weren't a nightmare, please consider the rest of it:

Bolsonaro, who abandoned Brasília on the eve of Lula’s swearing-in last Sunday, looks unlikely to return soon. He is in Florida, and reportedly fears prosecution for alleged crimes including his anti-scientific response to a Covid pandemic that killed nearly 700,000 people in his country.

A report in the Brazilian magazine Istoé this week claimed the former president was pressuring the Italian government to grant his family citizenship and hoped to move there after a stint in the US to avoid jail. Bolsonaro reportedly believed Brazilian authorities would be unable to extradite him from the European country, from where his great-grandfather Vittorio Bolzonaro emigrated in the late 19th century.

Thanks for breaking the news of this new incredible criminality to us, Eugene.

Only a demon or a fascist could tolerate it!