Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro plotted a coup to overturn the 2022 election together with dozens of ex-ministers and senior aides, federal police mentioned in a proper accusation filed on Thursday with the nation’s Supreme Court docket.
The ultimate police report caps an almost two-year investigation into Bolsonaro’s function within the election-denying motion that culminated in riots by his supporters that swept Brasilia, the capital, in January 2023, only a week after his rival President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took workplace.
Many protesters on the time mentioned they needed to create chaos to justify a navy coup, which they thought of imminent. Earlier this week, police arrested 5 alleged conspirators suspected of planning to assassinate Lula earlier than he took workplace.
