Reports from the former president’s attendants reveal Bolsonaro’s fear of being poisoned
January 15, 2023
13:01
Paula Litaiff – from Amazon Agency
MANAUS – “President Bolsonaro would ask about 20 people to taste the food before him and wait at least 40 minutes to eat that food. He was very afraid of being poisoned…”
The statement was given by one of the attendants of the commercial establishments through which former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) passed in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (850 kilometers from Manaus), in Amazonas.
Bolsonaro stayed in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, on May 26, 27 and 28 in 2021, to inaugurate a wooden bridge. In a single day, the former president spent R$ 23.2 thousand on the corporate card in a small bakery and, according to data from the Transparency Portal, the entire trip cost more than R$ 700 thousand.
Bolsonarists, an employee who attended and did not want to have his name disclosed defended the former president of the accusation of “spree” with the corporate card. There are reports of extreme spending in hundreds of cities in Brazil.
“What the media is doing is a great injustice to the president about these card expenses. He was very persecuted and, because of that, he asked people to taste the food before he did, to see if it was poisoned”, said the source.
And he added: “There were several people tasting and the bill was high”, justified the attendant, remembering that Bolsonaro had a predilection for regional food. “He wanted to eat what was popular among tourists”.
‘Guinea pigs’ staff
The conduct of making advisors place themselves as “guinea pigs” in the “poisoning test” comes from the Ancient Age, when emperors had servants enslaved specifically for these cases, without remorse about the life of who “tasted” the food, if it would be fatal or not.
Suspicious water
In a grocery store in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, where Bolsonaro spent R$ 17,951.10 on the corporate card for three days in the city, a merchant justified that the former president’s aide bought dozens of mineral waters, because, even sealed, the former president asked several aides to open and drink the water before him.
“Bolsonaro would comment that his enemies were capable of poisoning the water and re-sealing it. He said he was persecuted because he was doing the right thing in the country, that we needed to unite against those who wanted to kill him (sic)”, reported the salesman, who asked not to be named.
The shopkeeper said that, in addition to mineral water, the former president’s advisors bought products such as cookies and the like, all in multiplied quantities so that they could be opened and “tasted” before Bolsonaro consumed them. “That’s why the bill was so expensive”, he explained.
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