The verbal attack is very violent. " Serial killer ". This description is made by Renan Calheiros, Brazilian senator and rapporteur of the Senate committee on the Covid-19 pandemic in an interview in front of dozens of journalists to describe… Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil. Seven of the 11 senators who carried out the work of the commission approved the text which calls for the indictment of the Head of State for, among other things, "crimes against humanity", "charlatanism", "incitement to crime" ... "We know that we are guilty of absolutely nothing. We know we did the right thing from the start. The president defended himself at a public event before the vote of the senators.
The ICC accused the Bolsonaro government of having "deliberately exposed" the Brazilians to "mass contamination" in particular because of the head of state's anti-confinement speech and delays in the purchase of vaccines.
In Brazil, the Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 600,000 people.
It is the second most bereaved country in the world after the United States.
The prosecution of the head of state is unlikely to be successful, however, as Attorney General Augusto Aras, charged with prosecuting Jair Bolsonaro, is also one of his closest allies.