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Sara Winter, a kind of muse of Bolsonarism, was arrested this week, and Brazil inaugurated a new chapter in the escalation of tension between Justice and the environment of the President. The 27-year-old activist is in the spotlight in an investigation into the organization of coup demonstrations. Justice accuses her of raising resources to finance these protests and of violating national security. The young woman, who is actually called Sara Giromini, chose her 'stage name' to pay tribute to Sarah Winter, an Englishwoman who became a Nazi spy and joined the British Fascist Union.

Until a few days ago, Winter led the '300 of Brazil', a far-right group made up of the most radical supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, who for weeks have set up a camp in Brasilia. They argue that the Supreme Court and the National Congress "do not allow the president to govern", but their methods go a little beyond the banners. In his social networks, Winter defends that the judges of the Supreme "be separated by law or by the hands of the people" and supports the "extermination of the left . " He acknowledged that some members of the camp were armed "for their own safety" and threatened to "make hell" of the life of Supreme Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is dealing with the two cases that most concern Bolsonarism: the one investigating the machinery of 'fake news' that the Government itself would have set up to wear down its political opponents and that related to the organization of undemocratic demonstrations.

The Prosecutor's Office defined the '300 in Brazil' as an "armed militia" and ordered that the camp be dismantled last weekend. A few hours later, some thirty Bolsonaro supporters breached security barriers and fired fireworks and firecrackers at the Supreme Court building. It was not the first act in a threatening tone. In early June, Winter and his people protested in front of the Court at night, wearing masks and torches, with an aesthetic very similar to that of the Ku Klux Klan. "We are prepared to give our lives for the nation, and our weapons are faith in God, hope in this Government and methods of non-violent action," he recently told the BBC.

Now it is defined as 'pro-life, pro-God, pro-weapons', but the young Winter was not always like this. In fact, she went through a radical transformation. For a time she was part of the Ukrainian feminist feminist group Femen. She did not hesitate to write "Fora Bolsonaro" ( Outside Bolsonaro) on the bare chest and came to "castrate" a doll of the then deputy, known for his macho provocations. The current leaders of the group assure that they expelled her in 2012, for "disappearing" after receiving money for a protest that never carried out and for spreading lies about the organization. It is not clear how the mutation occurred or if at that time he already hid that ultra-conservative ideology. The fact is that now he is flying a "former feminist" flag that allows him to earn money with conferences and even It earned her a position of trust in Bolsonaro's Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, although it only lasted a few months.

His arrest caused a stir in the Bolsonarist ranks. Deputy Carla Zambelli, one of the closest to Bolsonaro, confessed that in recent days she asked Winter to lower her tone: "But she did the opposite. The temperature increased and she has an explosive personality, but she is not even a person. dangerous". His family, on the other hand, confessed some relief: "As I am Brazilian and I want a better country, the news was extremely positive. He is a totally uncontrolled person, he only wants to appear in the media, " his brother, Diego Giromini, told the local press. . In his opinion, his sister got what she wanted, because now she will begin to claim herself as a "political prisoner". Giromini is now in a female prison in Brasilia, and filed several appeals with the Supreme Court (ironically, the same court that continually attacked) to achieve provisional release.

The arrest occurs at a time of maximum tension between Bolsonaro and the Supreme . The court investigates not only who is behind the protests calling for military intervention and who funds the gigantic network of robots and fake news production from which the government would have benefited. He also investigates Bolsonaro's alleged interference in the independence of the Federal Police to try to protect his family from various scandals. The day after Winter's arrest, there were records of several businessmen and bloggers from far-right circles and the Justice authorized access to the bank details of 11 Bolsonarista deputies, which made the president not hide his nervousness: "They are abusing , this is clear (...) it is time to put things in their place, "he said.

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