Overview
- On September 6, 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, suffering intestinal injuries that required emergency surgery and left him with long‑term health problems and repeated hospitalizations.
- The attacker, Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, was forensically found to have acted alone, was diagnosed with persistent delusional disorder, and has been interned under a judicial security measure at the federal penitentiary in Campo Grande until he turns 60.
- The Supreme Court's 1st Panel convicted Bolsonaro in 2025 of leading an armed criminal organization that tried to overturn the 2022 result, the sentence became final later that year, and enforcement of the 27‑year-plus term has followed.
- Judges and doctors have weighed custody against care: an alleged attempt by Bolsonaro to tamper with an electronic monitor led to a temporary revocation of domiciliary status and transfers to federal custody before medical reviews produced renewed humanitarian house arrest with electronic monitoring.
- Federal Police probes found ties between Adélio’s former lawyer and the PCC but found no evidence linking that connection to the 2018 attack, and the procedural disputes over transfers, records and access were resolved by higher courts in 2024–2025.