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Man who stabbed Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro acquitted

Brazil's then-presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro grimaces after being stabbed during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, in southern Brazil, on September 6, 2018. [File, AFP]

A Brazilian judge on Friday acquitted a mentally ill man of attacking far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on last year's campaign trail, but jailed him for an "indefinite period."

Adelio Bispo de Oliveira stabbed Bolsonaro in the stomach on September 6 during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

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