Brazil’s prosecutor’s office asked the Supreme Court on Friday to open an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro for his possible responsibility for the looting of public buildings by his supporters in Brasilia on January 8.
Jair Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since the end of December, will be one of those investigated “who seeks to clarify the instigation and moral teaching of anti-democratic acts that have culminated in episodes of vandalism and violence in Brasilia,” the prosecutor’s office said. he said in a statement.
The far-right former president, narrowly defeated by left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, “publicly incited the execution of a crime” by posting a video on social media “challenging the regularity of the presidential elections in 2022”. .
The video was published two days after the violent invasion of the headquarters of the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court by thousands of Bolsonaristas on January 8, then it was deleted, the prosecutor’s office said.
The prosecution maintained that even if the video had been released after the looting, it could provide “an evidence link” that would justify “a global investigation into the events carried out before and after January 8, 2023” by Jair Bolsonaro.
Source: BFM TV
