The former director of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police and one of convicted felon former President Jair Bolsonaro’s top coup attempt co-conspirators Silvinei Vasques was extradited back to his home country on Friday night after his arrest in neighboring Paraguay as he tried to board a flight bound for El Salvador, the Associated Press reports on another L for the far right fascist squad.
Vasques – sentenced to 24 years house arrest for ordering his cops to prevent voters in left-leaning areas from making it to the polls on election day 2022 – had removed his ankle monitor, obtained false Paraguayan documents, rented a car, drove south, and was caught at the gate as he attempted to board the flight. It’s not clear if Vasques had any contact with El Salvadoran dictator Nayyib Bukele’s regime prior to the escape bid or had just assumed – maybe correctly – that they would take him in if he simply showed up. In any event, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes responded to Vasques’s attempt by ordering the 10 other co-conspirators who had enjoyed a looser form of house arrest to be placed on 24/7 lockdown in their homes for the rest of their sentences.
“There is no greater injustice than condemning a person for the actions of another,” tweeted Jeffrey Chiquini, attorney for former Bolsonaro advisor Filipe Martins, vowing to appeal De Moraes’s order.