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Riots in Brazil: Supreme Court approves investigation into Bolsonaro

2023-01-14T06:57:12.832Z


Last Sunday, supporters of the ex-president stormed Congress, the seat of government and the Supreme Court in Brasilia. Now it is to be examined what role Jair Bolsonaro himself played in this.


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Protesters in Brasilia: Such images went around the world last Sunday

Photo: ANDRE BORGES / EPA

After radical supporters stormed the government district in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, the Supreme Court also wants to investigate the behavior of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro.

This emerged on Friday evening from a statement by the Supreme Court, which accepted a corresponding request from the Attorney General's Office.

The right-wing ex-President Bolsonaro is accused of having posted a video on Tuesday and deleted it a short time later, in which he questioned the legality of the presidential elections in Brazil in October and thus publicly called for a crime.

On Sunday, Bolsonaro supporters stormed Congress, the seat of government and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, causing extensive damage.

Bolsonaro's successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Bolsonaro of inciting his supporters.

The ex-president denied the allegations.

According to judge Alexandre de Moraes, false statements had been repeated on social networks.

Among other things, democratic institutions have been denied their legitimacy, it is said.

This incited Bolsonaro supporters to attack representatives of these institutions and to commit "the most serious crimes against democracy and the rule of law" - like on that Sunday.

Tightened security measures in the capital

Although his post was published after the riots, Bolsonaro's role should be investigated, said Deputy Attorney General Carlos Frederico Santos, according to a prosecutor's statement.

The Supreme Court is already investigating, among other things, the "intellectual authorship" that led to the violence and vandalism in Brasilia.

In view of the fear of renewed actions by radical Bolsonaro supporters, security measures in the Brazilian capital were tightened on Wednesday after a call for a "mega-demonstration to regain power" had circulated in all Brazilian capitals.

Two days before the end of his term on New Year's Eve, Bolsonaro flew to the United States with his family, where he has been in Florida since then.

After being discharged earlier this week from a hospital where he was taken due to severe abdominal pain, Bolsonaro is aiming to return to his home country from the US ahead of schedule before the end of January.

In a statement to the AFP news agency, Bolsonaro's lawyers assured that he "never had the slightest connection" to those responsible for the storming of state institutions.

Lawyers blamed "smuggled" actors for the January 8 violence.

The protesters do not recognize Lula's election victory.

Bolsonaro himself has not done so yet.

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Source: spiegel

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