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Brazil’s prosecutor-general connected Tuesday filed charges against erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to enactment successful bureau aft his 2022 predetermination defeat.
Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated successful program to stay successful powerfulness contempt losing to existent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
BRAZIL’S FORMER PRESIDENT BOLSONARO AND AIDES INDICTED FOR ALLEGED 2022 COUP ATTEMPT
Last November, Federal Police filed a 884-page study with Gonet detailing the scheme. They allege it progressive systematically sowing distrust of the electoral strategy among the populace, drafting a decree to springiness the crippled a veneer of legality, pressuring apical subject brass to spell on with the plan, and inciting a riot successful the capital.
The Supreme Court volition analyse the charges and, if accepted, Bolsonaro volition basal trial.
The far-right person denies wrongdoing. "I person nary concerns astir the accusations, zero," Bolsonaro told journalists earlier connected Tuesday during a sojourn to the Senate successful Brasilia.
"Have you seen the coup decree, by immoderate chance? You haven’t. Neither person I," helium added.
A lawyer for Bolsonaro did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
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