The Supreme Court of Brazil This Thursday he sentenced Jair Bolsonaro a 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a coup d’état after losing the 2022 elections against the current president, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro and seven other defendants They were convicted of crimes against democracy, including attempted abolition of the democratic rule of lawcoup d’état, criminal organization, deterioration of protected assets and qualified damage.
In the case of the former president, the rapporteur judge applied the aggravating circumstance of leadership, pointing out that the Prosecutor’s Office identified him as “head” of the criminal organization who conspired to prevent the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after his victory in the 2022 elections.
The defense will appeal
The defense of the former Brazilian president confirmed in a statement that he will appeal the decision of the Supreme Court judges “even at the international level” when considering the sentences. “absurdly excessive and disproportionate”.
According to the accusation made by the Attorney General’s Office and accepted by four of the five judgesthe conspiracy began in June 2021, just over a year before the elections and when Lula was beginning to rise in the polls.
Trump’s support
Among the reactions to the condemnation, that of the president of the United States stands out, Donald Trump, who has defended Bolsonaro, calling him a “good man” and ensuring that is being persecuted like him.
“I saw the trial, I know him very well. As a foreign leader, I thought he was a good president. It is very surprising that this could happen“he stated.
In addition, Trump compared Bolsonaro’s judicial process with the one he went through when he was indicted for allegedly instigating the 2021 assault on the Capitol, a case that was dismissed when he won the presidential elections last year.
“It’s very similar to what they tried to do with me, but they didn’t get their way,” he added.
Golpe d’état
The plot was developed in various phases and began with a harsh discredit campaign against institutions and the electoral system of the country directed by Bolsonaro himself, according to the accusation.
The conspiracy went from words to deeds after Lula won the October 2022 electionswith intense protests, attacks thwarted by the Police and camps at the doors of the barracks where Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters demanded that the Army prevent the investiture by Lula.
The progressive leader finally took power on January 1, 2023 and, a week later, thousands of far-right activists left one of those camps in Brasilia to violently assault the headquarters of the Presidency, Parliament and the Court itself Supreme.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, this action was the corollary of a coup plot that has led to the convictions and that, according to the accusation, was “led” and directed personally by Bolsonarowith the aim of “perpetuating himself in power” and installing “a dictatorship” in Brazil.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers reiterated the innocence of their client, who, according to them, “did not attack” democracy and “never participated in any plan”, nor in the coup attempt of January 8, 2023. In the letter they have advanced their “deep disagreement and indignation with the terms of the majority decision” of the court.
They will fight “until the end”
The senator Flavio Bolsonaroeldest son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, expressed indignation at the recent ruling of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court and announced that “they will not accept” the sentence and that they will fight “to the end.”
At the doors of the former head of state’s residence, Flávio spoke with journalists and defended that his father, who governed Brazil between 2019 and 2022, “He never made decisions outside the Constitution.”
Furthermore, according to him, the “happiness” of the judges when casting their vote in favor of the conviction reveals that this trial “was anything but fair”.
The type of tribute of love and admiration to Jair Bolsonaro, which an Alexandre de Moraes will never have in his life, as it only arouses people’s contempt and indifference.
The game isn’t over, it’s just beginning!
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SUPREME PERSECUTION
WANT… pic.twitter.com/i5WeudBK9H— Flavio Bolsonaro (@FlavioBolsonaro) September 11, 2025
After the ruling, both Flávio and his brother, the federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonarostarted a campaign on social networks to denounce a judicial persecution and an alleged attempt to murder their father.
“Supreme persecution, they want to kill Bolsonaro,” both sons of the leader of the Brazilian far-right wrote on their social networks almost in unison.
In a longer message released prior to the start of this Thursday’s session, Eduardo, who since the beginning of this year moved to the United States to negotiate sanctions against Brazil in order to benefit his father, he wrote that “all this theater”, in relation to the trial, is “absolutely null.”
And he rated Judge Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case facing Bolsonaro, of “criminal dressed in a toga”and accused him of using justice as a “means of torture, threats and political persecution.”
“There are countless illegalities and procedural frauds committed by the criminal Moraes,” he said.