- On Wednesday, a committee of judges in Brazil's Supreme Court accepted charges against former President Geer Bolsonaro for an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, and ordered him to trial.
- Polsonaro and 33 others are accused of an attempt to coup that included a plan to poison behind, and the current President Louise Inosio Lula Da Silva, and the killing of the Supreme Court judge.
- Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any violations and says he is being persecuted politically.
A committee of judges in the Supreme Court in Brazil accepted Wednesday Accusations against former President Gere Bolsonaro During an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, and ordered the former leader to trial.
All five judges ruled in favor of accepting the charges against Paulo Gunnett, who accused Bolsonaro and 33 others of an attempt to coup that included a plan for poisoning behind him, the current President Louise Inosio Lula Da Silva, and the killing of the Supreme Court judge.
Judges said that seven allies close to being tried in five charges: attempt to coup, participate in an armed criminal organization, trial the violent abolition of the rule of democratic law, the damage that is characterized by violence and the serious threat to the state’s origins, and the deterioration in the included heritage.
The former president has repeatedly denied committing any violations and says he was being persecuted politically. Polsonaro's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Under Brazilian lawThe condemnation of the coup holds a penalty of up to 12 years. When associated with other fees, this may lead to contracts from contracts behind bars.
Judge Valvio Dino said: “The coups are killed.” “It does not matter if that day happens, or in the next month or a few years later.”
Former Brazilian President Gere Bolsonaro speaks to the press when he arrives at Brazilia International Airport in Brazilia, Brazil, on March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)
Prosecutor Paulo Gunnett said on Tuesday that those who face charges seek to keep Bolsonaro in power “at any cost”, in a multilateral scheme accelerated after the extremist right -wing politician lost to the current president.
As he was accused in February, Gunnett said that part of the plot guaranteed a plan to kill Lula and Justice Alexander de Morris, who were placed under observation by alleged conspirators.
Junnett said that the plan did not advance because at the last minute, the accused failed to obtain the army commander on board.
Junnett said: “The frustration overwhelmed the members of the criminal organization who did not abandon the violent seizure of power, even after the president -elect for the republic has performed the oath,” Junnett said.
This was a reference to January 8, 2023, when Bolsonaro supporters stormed the two rugs and broke the Supreme Court, the Presidential Palace and the Congress in Brazilia a week after Lula took office.
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DE Moraes on Wednesday's video clip video clip with scenes from that day. “We had a very violent coup attempt,” he said. “Brutal violence, in complete creativity, with the request for military intervention in Coup“
The former Minister of Justice in Bolsonaro will be tried during the 2022 elections and former Minister of Defense Walter Braga Nito, former Justice Minister Anderson Torres and his assistant, his baptism, among other things. The court will decide the fate of others later.
Bolsonaro, a former military officer who was known to express nostalgia for the country's dictatorship 1964-1985, publicly defied the judicial system of Brazil during his term 2019-2022.
