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The Brazilian judiciary decided on Friday to open an investigation against the former right-wing president, on suspicion of being involved in the invasion and looting of three institutions in the capital on January 8.
At the request of the prosecution, a Supreme Court judge decided on Friday to include the far-right leader in the investigation that seeks to determine the instigation and intellectual authorship of the invasion and looting of the headquarters of public powers.
On Sunday, January 8, when the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was serving a week in the presidency, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded the Supreme Court, Congress and the Presidency.
Prosecutors highlighted in their request a video that the former president uploaded to his social networks on January 10, two days after the attacks, questioning the October electoral result.
Bolsonaro’s defense, who is in the United States, denied any participation in the acts of vandalism for which there were more than 1,800 detainees.
“He (Bolsonaro) never had any relationship or participation in these movements,” says the note, which accused “infiltrators” of the riots, they declared in a note sent to AFP.
“Public incitement”
However, for the Attorney General’s Office there are elements that support the investigation against the former president, who never recognized Lula’s victory and left the country before the end of his term and the ceremony of transmission of command.
The entity considers that “it carried out public incitement to the practice of a crime” by uploading the video.
The violent attacks on the heart of power in Brasilia went around the world and the images were compared to the coup against the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Lula’s Justice Minister, Flavio Dino, said this Friday that he has not carried out procedures to request the extradition of the former president, who is in the United States.
The ex-president’s environment is also in the crosshairs of justice. For Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro’s former Justice Minister, there is an arrest warrant for alleged complicity in the attacks.
Torres was acting as Secretary of Justice of the capital at the time of the coup that devastated priceless works of art, destroyed buildings and destroyed the symbols of Brazilian democracy, for which he was dismissed.
On a trip to the United States, like his former boss, he said he was innocent and promised that he would appear before the courts, without giving a date.
But the Minister of Justice gave him a kind of ultimatum to return.
“We are going to wait until Monday for him to appear,” said Dino this Friday, who warned that if Anderson does not return voluntarily to Brazil, they will initiate actions to request his extradition next week.
Dino confirmed that police found a draft presidential decree at Anderson’s home that called into question the outcome of the 2022 election.
The document, released by Folha de S. Paulo, sought to decree control of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, in charge of the elections, “with the aim of guaranteeing the preservation and immediate restoration of transparency and correctness of the 2022 presidential electoral process.” .
