Pro-Israel Brazilian Presidential Front-Runner Stabbed at Rally

News Staff : Sep 7, 2018
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"Our agents there said the attacker was 'on a mission from God.' Their impression is that they were not dealing with a mentally stable person. He didn't expect to be arrested so quickly, agents reacted in seconds." -Luis Budens

[BreakingIsraelNews.com] Jair Bolsonaro, the front-runner in the upcoming presidential election in Brazil, was stabbed during a campaign rally Thursday and was undergoing surgery. (Photo: Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro/Credit: Agencia O Globo/via BIN)

The far-right politician, whose heated rhetoric has electrified some voters and angered others—who accuse him of racism and homophobia—in a deeply polarized electorate, was attacked amid a crowd in the south-east state of Minas Gerais. Bolsonaro has performed strongly in recent opinion polls.

Those same polls suggested that he will likely receive the most votes in next month's presidential elections, especially if the country's former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva ('Lula') remains blocked from standing. He is currently in prison, but is appealing against his candidacy ban—imposed after his conviction for corruption.

Police identified the attacker as 42-year-old Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, who was arrested at the scene. Oliveira was apparently badly beaten by Bolsonaro supporters following the attack... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.

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