Overview

• The 3rd panel of TRF-4 unanimously overturned a 2023 first-instance dismissal and recognized collective moral damage to the Black community.
• Bolsonaro and the Union must each pay R$ 1 million, with the sums directed to a public fund for diffuse rights.
• The ruling orders Bolsonaro to remove the discriminatory content from his social media and to publish a retraction addressed to Black Brazilians.
• The case centers on 2021 comments comparing a supporter’s black power hair to a “criatório de baratas” and jokes about “piolhos” during an Alvorada interaction and a live stream.
• The decision is civil with no prison term; the defense can appeal, and the AGU indicated it will define its response after access to the judgment.