While the ICC could take years to decide if it will investigate an environmental complaint against Jair Bolsonaro, the case against the Brazilian leader may still set a precedent, experts say
Austria-based environmental non-profit AllRise files a complaint with ICC, accusing Brazil's leader of"fuelling the mass destruction of the Amazon with his eyes wide open and in full knowledge of the consequences."
"Jair Bolsonaro is fuelling the mass destruction of the Amazon with his eyes wide open and in full knowledge of the consequences," said the group's founder Johannes Wesemann in a statement.The filing is just the latest in a series of charges made against Bolsonaro at the ICC since he took power in 2019, though it is the first to link Amazon destruction to climate crisis and expected health impacts as a result of warming, AllRise said.
"It's one more brick in the wall of shame he has been building for Brazil," Astrini said in a phone interview.Maud Sarlieve, a human rights and international criminal lawyer who helped compile the AllRise case, said the complaint could test a key ICC statute to "see if it can cover deaths linked to environmental destruction".
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