Bolsonaro parliamentarians protest against the arrest of Braga Netto and ignore suspicions about the general

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Candidate for Bolsonaro's vice president in 2022 was arrested this Saturday for trying to obstruct the investigation into the coup plot to keep the then president in power

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BRASILIA - Bolsonaro parliamentarians reacted on social media in protest to the arrest of retired general Walter Braga Netto on the morning of this Saturday, 14th. In the demonstrations, they ignored suspicions that the military man had coerced witnesses, as highlighted by a Federal Police report.

Throughout the morning, federal deputies and PL senators demonstrated. They spread a version according to which the country is experiencing democratic erosion, and say that the prison is an offense and humiliation to the Armed Forces. The...
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