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Bolsonaro was engineer of ‘wilful coup attempt’, Brazil congress inquiry alleges
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-report
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Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro was the mentor of “a wilful and premeditated coup attempt” that sought to plunge Latin America’s largest democracy into political mayhem and perhaps even civil war, a congressional inquiry investigating the 8 January insurrection has alleged.
The inquiry’s 1,333-page report called for Bolsonaro to be charged with four crimes which could land him in jail for a total of 29 years: coup d’état, the violent abolition of the rule of law, criminal association and political violence.
Similar accusations were leveled at dozens of key Bolsonaro allies, including three army generals who held prominent posts in his cabinet and his former justice minister Anderson Torres.
Bolsonaro, a former army paratrooper notorious for celebrating Brazil’s 1964-85 military dictatorship, has repeatedly denied involvement in January’s turmoil or seeking to stage a coup.
The report called January’s attacks – in which rightwing extremists ransacked the presidential palace, congress and supreme court – the culmination of a complex and highly organized conspiracy to keep Bolsonaro in power by overthrowing the government of his leftwing successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Ten months after the attacks, police investigators continue to target the conspirators and financial backers responsible for what the congressional inquiry called Brazil’s “day of disgrace”.
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