Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose relatives have already been implicated, is now himself the direct target of justice for his role in the looting of national institutions in Brasilia.
Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes announced Friday that he would include, at the request of the prosecution, the far-right former head of state in his investigation to discover the possible instigators of the violence on January 8 in the Brazilian capital. .
“Public incitement to commit a crime”
Jair Bolsonaro, narrowly defeated by left-wing candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October’s presidential elections, “publicly incited the execution of a crime” by posting a video on social media “challenging the regularity of the 2022 presidential election,” the prosecution explained in a press release.
This video was published two days after the invasion of the headquarters of the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court by thousands of Bolsonarists, then it was deleted, recalled the prosecutor’s office. But she could, according to him, provide “a test link” justifying “a global investigation into the events carried out before and after January 8, 2023” by Jair Bolsonaro.
The former president “never had the slightest connection or participation with these movements,” his lawyers said in a statement, attributing the violence in Brasilia to “infiltrators.”
10,000 euros spent on a bakery
Jair Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since the end of December, had already been pointed out on Friday for sumptuous expenses during his tenure, such as the 20,000 euros spent suddenly in a modest restaurant in northern Brazil or the 10,000 euros in a bakery the day after his son’s wedding.
The presidential credit card statements during his four years in office (2019-2022) were published on an official website of the Lula government, which began to lift a secret imposed for 100 years by his predecessor on thousands of documents. officers.
Source: BFM TV
