Brazil’s Bolsonaro Furious as His Name Is Cited in Murder Case
- President interrupts trip to Middle East to talk about report
- Bolsonaro lambasts Globo TV and Rio governor during broadcast
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, angry over a report that cited his name in the investigation of a high-profile murder of a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman last year, lashed out during a state visit to Saudi Arabia.
Globo TV reported Tuesday night that the doorman of Bolsonaro’s gated community in Rio said he received authorization from someone at the president’s house to admit one of the accused killers of Marielle Franco into the community, where the other suspect in the case also lived. Globo added, however, that Bolsonaro was in Brasilia that day, according to records of the lower house, where he was a deputy.