Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro no longer prosecuted for falsifying vaccination certificates during Coronapandemie

On Wednesday it was also announced that Bolsonaro should answer to the court for a possible coup attempt, but the case for vaccination certificates has no influence on this.

Bolsonaro was accused of having tampered with the vaccination certificates of himself, his wife and their minor daughter. The public prosecutor asked to classify the case because the indictment is “only” based on a single witness, namely that of Mauro Cid, a former Bolsonaro employee.

Paulo Cunha, one of the ex-president’s lawyers, welcomes the decision. “We hope that the other lawsuits know the same fate,” it sounds. CID, the former right hand of Bolsonaro, is also the main witness in the case about the alleged coup attempt. In this file, Bolsonaro risks forty years in prison.