In an official statement, a European parliamentarian asked the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to respond to President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to take steps to guarantee his children’s Italian citizenship. According to the parliamentary leadership, the fear is that the president has taken measures in the same direction, which may suggest a move to avoid prosecution in Brazil.
The initiative was taken by Angelo Bonelli, one of the leaders of the Green Europe movement and a parliamentarian from the Green and Left Alliance.
On Monday, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro went to the Italian embassy in Brazil to advance the process of obtaining Italian citizenship. The senator said in a note that the process began in 2019 and that “leaving the country before I started producing crazy theses was not an option for me.”
But what the Italian parliamentarian now wants to know is, is it only his sons who take the initiative, or does it include the president?
I asked Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani a question to find out if the children of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s children would be granted the Italian citizenship,” he said. accused”.
“It’s a common practice in the family, according to investigators: Since 1990, Bolsonaros have bought 107 flats, half of them in cash. His third son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, now a congressman, is involved in the “digital militia” case, wrote the report, a congressman.
“We asked whether Francesco Azzarello, the Italian Ambassador to Brazil, also received the president’s request for Italian citizenship,” he said.
“In the question, I reminded Bolsonaro that he and his party are responsible for the destruction of the Amazon, despite being close to both Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who reaffirmed their support for him in the elections two weeks ago. Forest and human rights violations. He said he was prosecuted for crimes against humanity because of, and because of, the Brazilian Senate initiating a “case of prosecution”.
“Had Bolsonaro also applied for Italian citizenship, there would have been a serious risk that the family would want to use it to avoid being tried by the courts in cases involving the president,” he warned. “That would be unacceptable,” Bonelli concludes.
Honorary citizenship questioned in court
In 2021, President Jair Bolsonaro received honorary citizenship in Anguillara Veneta, his ancestral city in Italy. But the city’s residents and the Green Europe Party appealed to justice with the presentation of a popular action where they demanded the honor be revoked. The case is in the Supreme Court today.
The city is the birthplace of the president’s family. Around 1878, Vittorio Bolzonaro left the region with his family for Brazil. The change in spelling of the name occurred due to an error in the registry office.
Using this argument from the Italian origins of the Brazilian president, the town hall took the initiative to honor Bolsonaro.
But in late January, a popular lawsuit was filed in Padova court by lawyers Donato Lettieri, Lucia Colangelo and Giovanni Colangelo, linked to the Europa Verde party.
The 23-page document, to which the reporter has private access, condemns Mayor Alessandra Buoso and the eight councilors who make up her government.
Action, decision no. Law 27, which granted Bolsonaro honorary citizenship, is deemed “illegal or invalid because the identity and image of the municipality is damaged after it is associated with the expression of values that contradict the historic, traditional and cultural values of the town hall”. The municipality of Anguillara “Veneta”.
Since 1993 the small municipality has the title of “city of peace and human rights”. Not by chance, religious people, the moderate wing of local politicians, trade unions and other groups tried to block the progress of the project to get Bolsonaro.
Today the mayor is from the Liga party led by Bolsonaro fan Matteo Salvini, who went to the area to find his political ally.
However, at that moment, the town hall was still born with graffiti with the phrase “Fora Bolsonaro” and smeared with manure. Environmentalists ‘Rise Up 4 Climate Justice’ organized the protest.
For Bonelli, Bolsonaro does not require honorary citizenship. “It caused the deaths of 600,000 people, most of them Native Americans, which led the Brazilian Senate to vote in favor of indicting the president for crimes against humanity,” he said.
source: Noticias
