Bolsonaro to the court in Brazil: Give me back my passport

The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, appealed to the Supreme Court to receive his confiscated passport so that he could fly to visit Israel, at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – as reported by the media in Brazil.Bolsonero’s lawyers appealed to the Supreme Judge, Alejandra de Moraes, with a request to return the former president’s passport that was confiscated last month, as part of the ongoing investigation against Bolsonero for his involvement in the January 2023 attack by his supporters on the government institutions in protest of his loss in the elections.

According to the request, Prime Minister Netanyahu invited Bolsonaro to come to Israel with his family between May 12 and 18, exactly when the State of Israel will celebrate Memorial Day and Independence Day. “It is essential to emphasize that the confirmation of the existence of this trip does not jeopardize the investigation, especially considering the obligations that have already been established, and which require the presence of the petitioner upon his return from Israel,” the lawyers noted, adding that Bolsonaro is also willing that the return of the passport be “temporary.”

According to reports, the request by Bolsonaro’s lawyers was submitted on March 25, the exact day the New York Times revealed that the former president spent two days in the Hungarian embassy in Brazil, between February 12 and 14, immediately after his passport was confiscated.