Brazil’s Bolsonaro denied hospital visit after hitting head in prison fall

The ex-president’s woman says helium fell retired of his situation furniture portion sleeping and deed his head.

Brazil’s jailed ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, ⁠fell and struck ⁠his caput successful his situation cell, but his petition to spell to a infirmary was denied by the country’s apical judge.

The 70-year-old right-wing person fell retired of furniture portion sleeping and deed his ​head connected a portion of furniture, his wife, ‍Michelle Bolsonaro, wrote connected Instagram connected Tuesday.

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“We ​are ‌going to the hospital. My emotion volition ‌undergo exams,” Michelle Bolsonaro ‌said.

However, Supreme ‍Court Justice Alexandre ‍de Moraes denied Bolsonaro’s petition to instantly permission situation for tests astatine a infirmary successful Brasilia.

The national constabulary said successful a connection that Bolsonaro received archetypal aesculapian attraction successful the morning, adding that a national ‍police doc “found ⁠minor injuries” and saw nary request for hospitalisation.

“Any referral to a infirmary depends connected authorisation from the Supreme Court,” it added.

Bolsonaro, who was stabbed ‌in the abdomen during a ⁠2018 run event, has a past of hospitalisations and surgeries related to the attack.

Citing the constabulary report, de Moraes said successful his determination that determination is nary request for Bolsonaro to beryllium instantly taken to hospital. The justice said his ineligible squad has the close to petition ​exams for Bolsonaro, but lawyers indispensable docket ‌them successful beforehand and supply accusation justifying the procedures.

Bolsonaro underwent a series of aesculapian procedures ‌in December to dainty a hernia and ⁠hiccups.

He was discharged from infirmary connected January 1 and taken backmost to the Federal Police Superintendency successful Brasilia, wherever helium is serving a 27-year condemnation for plotting a ‌coup aft losing the 2022 statesmanlike election.