The former Brazilian president began to be heard by the Federal Police about his role in the attacks carried out on January 8 by his supporters in Brasilia.
The former president and leader of the Brazilian extreme right Jair Bolsonaro began to be heard this Wednesday by the Federal Police about his role in the attacks perpetrated by his supporters against the headquarters of the three powers, on January 8, in Brasilia.
A judge of the Federal Supreme Court had ordered, in mid-April, the hearing of Bolsonaro, who was in Orlando that day, in the United States.
The former president has always denied his involvement in the coup attempt carried out by his supporters. a week after the inauguration of the current Brazilian Head of State, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro, who returned to Brazil at the end of March after three months in the US, arrived this Wednesday morning at the Federal Police facilities in Brasilia in a vehicle with tinted windows and did not make any statements.
Bolsonaro had published a video on January 10, two days after the riots, questioning the result of the elections and the victory of Lula da Silva.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the Federal Supreme Court, Congress and the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 8, prompting condemnation from the international community.
The invasion began after Brazilian far-right militants who supported the former president, defeated by Lula da Silva in last October’s elections, called a protest to the Esplanada dos Ministérios to try to overthrow the new government.
After the acts of vandalism, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) dismissed the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, who has already returned to office, considering that both the governor and the former Secretary of Security and former Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro Anderson Torres, who is imprisoned, he will have acted with negligence and omission.
The Brazilian justice system is investigating Bolsonaro to clarify whether he was involved in instigating the coup acts, and public officials and other authorities suspected of omitting or facilitating the attacks are also being investigated.
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Source: Observadora
