(Orlando) Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed on Monday that he was hospitalized in Orlando (Florida), in the southeastern United States, for an intestinal “adhesion”.
“Yesterday, I had a new grip,” reported on Twitter and Instagram the ex-far-right leader, who has suffered a succession of abdominal alerts since the stabbing attack he was victim in September 2018, in the midst of the presidential election campaign.
Stabbed in the intestine by an apparently unbalanced individual during a walkabout, he had narrowly escaped death and the aftermath of this attack had enamelled his mandate.
Tweeting a photo Monday from his hospital bed in Orlando, he thanked his followers for their “prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery.”
News of Jair Bolsonaro’s hospitalization, confirmed hours earlier Monday by his wife Michelle, came the day after thousands of his supporters stormed Brazil’s Presidential Palace, Congress and Supreme Court. , in protest at his defeat in the 2022 presidential election to leftist candidate Lula.
Six hours after the assaults, Bolsonaro had finally condemned lip service “the depredations and invasions of public buildings”, while denying any responsibility while Lula had accused him of having encouraged the “fascists”.
Jair Bolsonaro had left Brazil for Florida two days before Lula’s inauguration on 1er January, refusing to hand over the presidential sash to the one whose victory he has never digested on the wire.