The former national president of the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) was initially transferred to Benfica prison. | Photo: PTB

Brasilia, October 25 (RHC)-- In Brazil, a former bolsonarista deputy, Roberto Jefferson, was transferred to prison on Monday after barricading himself for eight hours and shooting at the Brazilian Federal Police who were trying to arrest him, which left two agents wounded by the throwing of a grenade.

The former national president of the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) was initially transferred to Benfica prison, located in the north of the state of Rio de Janeiro, to later be interned in the Gericinó Penitentiary Complex.

For his part, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced that "as I determined with the Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres, Roberto Jefferson has just been imprisoned and the treatment for those who shoot police officers is that of a bandit."

However, graphic testimonies evidence the close link between the former PTB leader and the current head of state, who is the most responsible for the polarization of the South American nation, as expressed by the leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In this sense, Lula published that "hate, violence and contempt for the law.  Roberto Jefferson is not only a criminal and one of the main allies of our adversary: he is the face of what Bolsonaro preaches."
According to the Federal Police, Jefferson shot at a patrol car that was in the vicinity of his house, meanwhile, he wounded two agents with shrapnel from a grenade, who were treated and later discharged.

The former deputy, who had been under house arrest since last year, was presented with an arrest warrant by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) after failing to comply with the rules of his sentence.