Status: 01/14/2023 02:52 am
Last week, supporters of ex-President Bolsonaro stormed the government district in the Brazilian capital. The Supreme Court has now approved investigations into the right-wing extremist. A video is of central importance.
After the violent storming of the presidential palace in Brasília, ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is now under investigation. Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted a request by Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office to put the far-right politician on a list of people to be investigated for the January 8 violence.
“Instigation and Intellectual Authorship”
The Attorney General accuses him of “incitement and intellectual authorship”. The investigators refer to a video that Bolsonaro published on Facebook two days after the violent storm. The video attested that Bolsonaro’s successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was not elected to office, but was selected by the Supreme Court and the electoral authority.
Prosecutors argued that even if Bolsonaro released the video after the riots, its content warranted investigating his behavior beforehand. Bolsonaro deleted the video the morning after it was released.
Bolsonaro repeatedly raised doubts
Bolsonaro has otherwise largely avoided commenting on the election since his defeat in the presidential runoff on October 30. However, he never admitted his defeat and previously repeatedly raised doubts about the reliability of the country’s electronic voting system.
Last Sunday, hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters broke into the congress building, the presidential palace and the seat of the Supreme Court in the capital, where they wreaked havoc for hours. Her anger was vented at the election victory of left-wing politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who narrowly defeated Bolsonaro in a runoff and has been in office since the beginning of the year. The protesters do not recognize Lula’s election victory.
Who did the logistics?
Authorities are investigating who enabled radical Bolsonaro supporters to storm the Supreme Court, Congress and the Presidential Palace in an attempt to overturn the outcome of the election. It’s about who paid for it to bring the people to the capital – or the question of whether local security forces allowed them to do so.
Much of the attention has now focused on Bolsonaro’s former Attorney General Anderson Torres, who returned to his former post as the capital district’s security chief on Jan. 2, was fired in the wake of the events of Governor Ibaneis Rocha, and resigned on the day of the riots located in the USA.
Plans for the “correction” of the election result
It was announced on Thursday that a document containing plans to “correct” the election results was found in Torres’ home. Chief Justice Moraes ordered his arrest and has opened an investigation against him.
Torres fired subordinates and left the country before the riots, indicating he deliberately laid the groundwork for the incidents. Torres must return within three days or Brazil will file an extradition request, said the new justice minister, Flávio Dino.