(9 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brasilia, Brazil – 8 September 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro praying in vigil near the entrance of his gated condominium where he is in house arrest
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mauricio Savarese, The Associated Press:
++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 1++
“This is Monday night in Brasilia, we are really close to the home of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. People are honking in the sign behind me because they want him to run next year’s presidential election and go back to office, despite the fact that for now he is ineligible."
3. Cardboard of Jair Bolsonaro wrapped in Brazilian flag in front of sound truck
4. Supporters praying near the entrance of Bolsonaro’s condominium
5. Wide of supporters and banner on sound truck
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mauricio Savarese, The Associated Press:
++STARTS IN SHOT 4, PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
++PANS TO SUPPORTERS++
“He is going to be standing trial for five different counts in an alleged coup trial. But still, his supporters are here. They are praising for his conservative polices, they are praying for him and hoping he will return. Of course, that is going to be a very tall order according to many experts, who believe he is going to be convicted in this trial. Even some people here they do believe he is going to be convicted too, but they hope that Brazil’s Congress is going to give them some kind of amnesty and that will allow him either to stay at the house arrest that he is currently in, or just be free for all the accusations he has received so far.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro gathered on Monday in a prayer vigil in ahead of his trial, next to the condominium where he is under house arrest.
Clutching Bibles and Brazilian flags, demonstrators sang hymns, prayed, and called for divine intervention, claiming the country’s highest court is acting with political bias.
A panel of Supreme Court justices is set to decide this week whether Bolsonaro is guilty or not of plotting to overthrow Brazil’s democracy and hang onto power illegally after his 2022 electoral defeat.
The far-right ex-president is facing five counts at trial for allegedly conspiring to stage a coup after his narrow loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist who first won the presidency two decades earlier.
If convicted by the five-judge panel in the verdict expected Thursday or Friday, Bolsonaro could be sentenced to decades behind bars.
Bolsonaro has always denied any wrongdoing, repeatedly calling the trial a politically motivated attack.
Seven other close allies of Bolsonaro are being tried alongside the ex-president, including Walter Braga Netto, his former running mate and defense minister, and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, another former defense minister.
Deemed a flight risk, Bolsonaro is wearing an ankle monitor and remains under house arrest.
AP Video shot by Eduardo François
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