Brazilian politician surrenders after injuring policemen while resisting arrest - Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian person Roberto Jefferson surrendered aboriginal Sunday evening aft wounding 2 policemen portion resisting apprehension ordered by the country's Supreme Court.

President Jair Bolsonaro tried to region himself from his state posting a video connected societal media aft his arrest, saying idiosyncratic that fires astatine policemen should beryllium treated arsenic a criminal.

Two officers were injured by shrapnel of a grenade thrown by the erstwhile congressman. Both went to the infirmary and were aboriginal released, the connection said.

In a video posted connected societal media connected Sunday morning, the congressman showed an representation of national constabulary officers arriving astatine his house, and aboriginal admitted successful different video that helium had aimed astatine the constabulary car but not astatine the officers.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had ordered Jefferson to beryllium taken to jailhouse aft the erstwhile congressman and president of PTB governmental enactment released a portion offending justness Carmen Lucia, owed to decisions she made related to the statesmanlike elections.

In his decision, Moraes said Jefferson did not comply to conditions to his location arrest.

Jefferson was already nether probe for the alleged engagement successful producing fake news, and connected Friday released statements offending justness Carmen Lucia, who had decided to transportation portion of Bolsonaro's aerial clip to statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva aft the leftist complained astir offenses successful the adversary's governmental ads.

Two absorption senators, Randolfe Rodrigues and Eliziane Gama had asked the Supreme Court to punish Jefferson for offending Lucia.

Political hostility has risen up of the statesmanlike predetermination runoff adjacent Sunday. Bolsonaro had antecedently tweeted a condemnation of Jefferson's comments connected the Justice and his absorption to prison. Lula said the contented should present beryllium solved by the constabulary and blamed Bolsonaro for expanding governmental violence.

Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Alexandre Caverni, Writing by Tatiana Bautzer; editing by Diane Craft

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