Bolsonaro showed the injury of the attack that he suffered in the countryside – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has shown on television and for the first time in public the wounds sustained during the knife attack he suffered last September during the election campaign, claiming that he was the only one in the country. aggression was not a "fake". news "(false news).

During a visit to a recording on the SBT channel owned by the tycoon Silvio Santos, Bolsonaro showed his abdomen in front of the TV channel's cameras, showing that the attack suffered in Juiz de Fora, in the Minas Gerais, was not misleading.

"Here's the knife stab, the colostomy bag and the surgery, some say it was" fake ", said Bolsonaro lifting his gray suit and white shirt showing his abdomen, in the studios from SBT in the city of San Pablo.

While visiting the SBT, Bolsonaro participates in the Silvio Santos program and defends human rights defenders https://t.co/wQ7WsMYr0b pic.twitter.com/liVj9W69kR

– SBT Jornalismo (@sbtjornalismo) May 2, 2019

The former captain of the army was attacked when he was presidential candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) by the badistant mason, Adelio Bispo, during a street show in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

Bispo is currently being held in a maximum security prison, pending the judge who will determine if he is insane and if he can submit to legal proceedings.

The Bolsonaro family generally claims to want to ask who sent the attack to Bispo, but the federal police, in charge of former Justice Sérgio Moro and Minister of Justice and Public Security, has until the end of the day. present said that it was an isolated act of the aggressor.

After the attack, Bolsonaro had to be hospitalized for 23 days, which removed him from the election campaign, but had a major impact on the ballot box.

In January, after his accession to the presidency, Bolsonaro underwent an operation to remove the colostomy bag he had been living with since the attack.