The Federal Police of Brazil treats as evidence against former President Jair Bolsonaro for an alleged coup attempt
the video of an old meeting in which he called to "do something"
before the 2022 elections, according to the recording released this Friday by the Supreme Court.
"Everyone here (...) has something to lose.
We can't let the elections come
and what is being painted happen (...).
We are going to have to do something before
," says Bolsonaro during the meeting with his ministers held on July 5, 2022, three months before the elections.
The far-right former president, in line with other well-known statements of his,
complains about an electoral process that he considers unfairly tilted against him
and says that if he does not "react" before the elections
, "chaos" will be unleashed,
a "great guerrilla ", and a "bonfire".
At the same time, Bolsonaro accuses several judges of the Supreme Court
of being "preparing everything"
so that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
will fraudulently win
in the first round of the elections, held on October 2, 2022.
The federal police carry out raids in the case of the events of January 8, 2023. Photo: Sergio Lima / AFP
Magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, in charge of the investigation into the ultras attacks in Brasilia on January 8, 2023,
authorized the release of the videos
after certain extracts were published in Brazilian media.
What do Bolsonaro's lawyers say?
After the disclosure, Bolsonaro's lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten, stated on social networks that the opinions that appear in the video
are "absolutely public"
and that "they are part of democracy," and ruled out that the former president had advocated the use of the strength to stay in power.
At one point in the video, Bolsonaro says that he does not propose "measures of force. It is not shooting, it is not putting soldiers in the street and setting fires and machine-gunning."
The Federal Police
are investigating Bolsonaro for his alleged involvement in planning a coup d'état,
in which the imprisonment of Supreme Court judges was planned and the transfer of powers was prevented, so on Thursday they requested his passport
and prohibited leaving the country.
In addition, as part of the investigations, the agents searched the homes of three former ministers and a former Navy commander involved in the alleged plot and arrested three former advisors of the far-right party and the president of its formation, Valdemar Costa Neto, of the Liberal Party. .
With information from EFE