The Public Prosecutor of Brazil, by means of the Prosecutor General Paulo Gonethas filed a complaint against the former president at the Federal Supreme Court of the country Jair Bolsonaroaccusing him of having attempted a coup to stay in power after the 2022 elections, who saw his opponent triumph Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). There are 34 in total people accused of taking part in the supposed coup.
The decision of the Brazilian Prosecutor General comes 3 months after the end of the investigations carried out by federal policewho then left the prosecutor’s analysis of the tests found and the task of deciding whether to postpone the accused or ask for storage.
It is now up to the Brazilian Supreme Court to decide on the possible arrest of Bolsonaro and his indictment for attempted coup. In the event that the Supreme Court decided to proceed with the trial, the former president risks 12 to 40 years in prison.
The report of the prosecutor Gonet It is well detailed, even speaks of “members of the criminal organization” that would have “structured a plan in the presidential palace to attack the institutions, with the aim of overturning the system of powers and the democratic order”, with the Bolsonaro president that would have been “brought to the attention of the plan”, “approving it”. This plan provided for the poisoning of the current President Lulain addition to the assassins of the vice -president Gerald Alfmin and of the judge of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes.
The plan was reported for the first time by Mauro Cidex help of Campo di Bolsonaro. And he would have found further feedback thanks to the statements of the former army and Air Force Commanders, as well as to the messages and entry recordings in Palácio da Alvorada (the residence of the President of Brazil).
The former president then returns to the eye of the cyclone two years after the events of January 8, 2023, when thousands of his supporters attacked the main government offices in the capital Brasilia, to protest against the outcome of the elections. After the complaint of the Prosecutor General, Bolsonaro He has released a press release in which he defined the accusations as “politically motivated” and “a way to make up the next elections before they happen”.
