The supreme court will judge the responsibility of the former head of state in the events of January 8, in particular due to the dissemination of a video contesting the result of the presidential election.
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The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, whose relatives had already been questioned, is now himself directly in the viewfinder of justice for his role in the ransacking of national institutions by supporters of the extreme right.
The judge of the Federal Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, announced, Friday, January 13, that he included the former head of state in the investigation into the events that occurred in Brasilia on January 8. The general prosecution had, during the day, asked to submit the former head of state to investigations to clarify his role in the assault, by thousands of Bolsonarist demonstrators, the presidential palace, the federal court and the congress in the Capital.
The public prosecutor’s office wanted the opening of an investigation “which seeks to clarify the instigation and the moral magisterium of the undemocratic acts which led to episodes of vandalism and violence in Brasilia” Sunday.
Jair Bolsonaro, narrowly beaten by the left candidate Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, “made a public incentive to execute a crime” by broadcasting a video on social networks “implicating the regularity of The presidential election of 2022, “explained the prosecution in a press release.
a published video then erased
The video was published two days after the violent invasion of the seat of the presidency, the Congress and the Federal Supreme Court by thousands of bowls, then erased, recalled the prosecution, but it could bring “a link of proof “Justifying” a global survey on the acts carried out before and after January 8, 2023 “by Jair Bolsonaro.
The former president, who is currently in the United States, “has never had the slightest link or participation with these movements,” said his lawyers in a statement transmitted to the France-Presse agency (AFP ), by attributing Brasilia’s violence to “infiltrated” elements.
Federal police arrested 1,843 people after the riots occurred a week after taking office of the left president Lula for a third term. Most were in a camp, installed for two months in front of an army command center, where they claimed military intervention to prevent Lula’s accession to power.
Wednesday, 1,159 people had been arrested, and 684 elderly or sick people, parents of young children or free-borne. The charges retained against the rioters are “terrorism”, “criminal association”, “attack on the democratic state”, “participation in an attempted coup” and “incitement to crime”.
Investigation in progress
Judge Moraes ordered, on Thursday, the opening of an investigation into the conduct of the Governor of Federal District of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, suspended from his duties for 90 days, and that of the public security commanders of the Capital during “terrorist acts”.
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Investigations are underway against Mr. Rocha But also against Fernando de Sousa Oliveira, former interim security secretary, Fabio Augusto, commander of the military police in the federal district, as well as against Anderson Torres, Secretary of Security in Brasilia and former Minister of Justice of Jair Bolsonaro .
m. Torres has been in the heart of compromising revelations since Friday after the discovery, at home, of a draft decree which could have allowed the cancellation of the election of Lula to the presidency. Tuesday, Mr. Moraes issued an arrest warrant against MM. Augusto and Torres (the latter was on vacation in the United States at the time of violence and promised to return to Brazil) for “omission and collusion”.