Former president Jair Bolsonaro returned to Brazil on Thursday after three months of self-exile, to be welcomed by rapturous supporters and a police summons over $3mn of jewels said to have been gifts from the Saudi government.
The rightwing populist landed early in Brasília on a flight from Orlando, Florida, where he had stayed since late last year after leaving Brazil to avoid the inauguration of his successor, leftwing leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Scores of supporters dressed in the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag gathered at 5am to meet him in the airport, singing the national anthem and cursing Lula. The former president, however, left the premises via a private exit and did not greet the crowd, leaving many disappointed.