Brazil charges former president Jair Bolsonaro over alleged coup plot

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Brazilian leader Gear Bolsonaro was officially charged with leading an alleged coup plot to stay in power after losing in the 2022 elections to President Luiz Inosio Lula Da Silva.

The country’s prosecutor was accused of the hard right -wing politician of the leadership of a “criminal organization” to sabotage democracy in the Latin Latin nation, the most intense population.

Prosecutors said that 33 other people participated in the plot, including PolsonaroDeputy candidate-candidate-Rashid General Walter Braga Nito and about twenty retirees, or serve senior military personnel. The plot included assassination plans without preventing him from taking office.

The Brazilian Supreme Court must now consider the charges and decide whether it will move to a trial. If convicted, Bolsonaro, a US President Donald Trump’s allyIt can face the prolonged prison sentence.

Bolsonaro, former army commander and Habib BrazilThe right movement, and has previously drew himself as a victim of persecution with political motives. It has already been declared inappropriate to run for public positions until 2030 due to the attacks on the country’s electoral system.

It also faces two other issues on the alleged forgery for Covid-19 vaccine certificate Illegal sale of jewelry He gave him head of state.

In a file to the Supreme Court, Prosecutor Paulo Gonet said that the charges “describe the actions made by the President of the Republic, which forms an organized criminal organization with other civilian and military figures to prevent the result of the popular will at the will in 2022 elections to carry out.”

The fees were based on a Detailed federal police report From last November.

Bolsonaro’s legal team said that the former president “did not support any movement aimed at dismantling the rule of democratic law or its institutions.

Despite nearly two years of investigations. . . No component was found until the president continued remotely with the novel created in the complaint. “

It is claimed that the conspirators in the alleged “green and yellow” dagger plot, called the Brazilian flag, are planning to kill the elected president Lula and his colleague in running Geraldo Alkain in December 2022, weeks before handing over power. Prosecutors said that the Supreme Court judge Alexander de Morais was also targeting his assassination.

Among the accused at the time was the Prime Minister of the Brazilian Navy, the former Minister of Justice during the era of Bolsonaro and a former head of intelligence service in the country.

The report said that in the end the plan was not implemented, due to the lack of support among the senior army leaders. But Bolsonaro was aware of Lula’s plan, and agreed with her, according to Junnett.

Police said the criminal organization began in June 2021. The authorities also indicated the repeated attacks of Bolsonaro on the electronic voting system of Brazil in the period before its defeat. Bolsonaro claimed that digital polls were subject to fraud, without providing evidence.

Investigators also linked the alleged coup attempt to a rebellion in Brazilia on January 8, 2023, when thousands of Polisonaro Radeconists stormed government buildings days after Lula’s inauguration.

Many rioters claimed that the presidential elections, which Bolsonaro lost, was slightly lost and called for the status of the military. I condemn hundreds, with many custody rulings.

In recent days, the former president has tried to mobilize conservative forces in the Congress to pass the amnesty law for crimes related to disturbances. Opponents consider this as a tactic to help the Polsonaro issue.