Bolsonaro ordered to pay damages for racist remarks in office
Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to pay R$1m (£138,000) in collective moral damages for remarks deemed “racist” while he was in office.
The latest ruling, delivered by a state appeals court, came less than a week after Brazil’s former president was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for leading an attempted coup to overturn the result of the 2022 election.
In the case judged on Tuesday by the federal court of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Bolsonaro was accused of saying in 2021, while still president, that the hair of a Black supporter, who had an afro, was a “breeding ground for cockroaches”.
Bolsonaro’s defence argued there had been no intention of racial offence and that the supporter himself had publicly said he was not offended.
But the judges ruled the comments were not mere jokes or an exercise of free speech, but amounted to “recreational racism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/16/bolsonaro-damages-brazil
If everyone in the durrent administration has to do that one day, they'll all be paupers.