Brazil: Supreme Court sentences far-right lawmaker to nearly nine years in prison

The Supreme Court of Brazil (illustrative image).

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André Silveira, who is close to President Bolsonaro, had repeatedly made threats against members of the High Court.

A conviction that sets fire to the powder between Jair Bolsonaro and the Supreme Court six months before the elections.

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With our correspondent in Sao Paulo,

Ten against one.

It is on a score without appeal that the magistrates of the Court condemned Daniel Silveira because of the threats he had made against members of this same Supreme Court.

The sentence for this supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro amounts to 8 years and 9 months in prison, but his lawyers can still appeal.

Daniel Silveira is a controversial and colorful character.

He had already been detained on the orders of Judge Alexandre de Moraes for 9 months after uttering threats and praising the military dictatorship of the 1970s. On occasion, Daniel Silveira had received the explicit support of Jair Bolsonaro .

This time, it was one of the president's children, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who showed his solidarity with the far-right deputy: "

", he told him on Twitter.

The Supreme Court is more than ever the privileged target of power as the elections approach, a court that another son of the president, Eduardo Bolsonaro, had suggested to close, purely and simply.

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