Under new Brazilian Security System, Even Bolsonaro Will Need to be X-Rayed
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After the global embarrassment caused by the arrest of an Air Force Sergeant carrying 39 kilos of cocaine in a presidential aircraft, the Office of Institutional Security (GSI) decided to amend security rules during presidential travels.
Now, even the head of the national executive branch, Jair Bolsonaro, has to submit to the most rigorous search. According to information confirmed by two advisors to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, Bolsonaro was required to go through a metal detector before boarding to Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.
Sergeant Manoel Silva Rodrigues was arrested by the Spanish police when attempting to get through customs with the drugs hidden in a suitcase. There were 37 packages with a little more than 1 kg each, packed with beige and yellow ribbons.
Rodrigues was arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard when he landed at the Seville airport in Spain, on a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) flight. The photos were taken next to the X-ray equipment as soon as the Spanish agents detected the presence of narcotics in the soldier’s hand luggage.
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