- After the violent storming of the presidential palace in Brasilia, ex-President Jair Bolsonaro can now also be investigated in the matter.
- A judge of Brazil’s Supreme Court on Friday (local time) granted the Attorney General’s request to put the politician on a list of people to be investigated for the January 8 violence.
- The Attorney General accuses him of “incitement and intellectual authorship”.
With the publication of a video that “questions the legality of the 2022 presidential elections”, the right-wing extremist “publicly incited to commit a crime”, the Attorney General had explained. The video was released two days after Bolsonaro supporters violently stormed the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court and was later deleted.
The attorney general’s office said the video, although taken after the riots, can serve as “conclusive evidence” warranting “a global investigation into the defendant’s actions before and after January 8, 2023.”
Wreaked havoc for hours
On Sunday, hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters in the capital broke into the congress building, the presidential palace and the seat of the Supreme Court, causing hours of havoc there. Her anger was vented at the election victory of left-wing politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who narrowly defeated Bolsonaro in a runoff and has been in office since the beginning of the year.
The protesters do not recognize Lula’s election victory. Bolsonaro himself did not do this either and left for the USA before the transfer of office. It was announced on Thursday that a document containing plans to “correct” the election results was found in the home of former Attorney General Anderson Torres, a confidant of Bolsonaro. Torres is also in the United States.