After the incident, the former minister Milton Ribeiro He was taken to a police station where he gave a statement. In his version of events, he assured that he asked those present if anyone had been hit by bullet fragments, but no one said so.
According to the former minister’s own statement, the incident occurred when he was at the airline counter Latam to catch a flight to São Paulo around 6:00 p.m. (local time) on Monday.
“As he had already managed the firearm through the Internet, he went directly to the Latam airline counter; upon opening his briefcase he took his firearm to separate it from the charger, inside the briefcase itself, at which time the the shot accidentally”, indicates the version that Ribeiro gave to the Police.
Ribeiro justified that he tried to unload the weapon inside the briefcase itself for “fear” of exposing it publicly. The shot, he said, went through the holster, scattering the fragments that later reached this person.
Ribeiro left the cabinet of President Bolsonaro in the last government crisis carried out so that some of them could present their candidacies for the next general elections in October.
In the case of the former Minister of Education, his departure also coincided with a corruption scandal due to alleged irregularities in the provision of resources by the Ministry of Education.
Some audios leaked by the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’ showed a meeting between Ribeiro and mayors in which he assured that, at the request of President Bolsonaro, two evangelical pastors -Gilmar Santos and Arilton Moura- are the ones who decide how to distribute the Fund’s budget National Development of Education (FNDE) of the ministry.
Source: Ambito
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