Brazil: Bolsonaro auditioned by the federal police on his role in the riots of January 8

by time news

2023-04-26 19:27:23

He arrived at the federal police premises in a vehicle with tinted windows and made no statement. The far-right ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro began to be auditioned this Wednesday, April 26, in the morning, by the federal police on his role in the ransacking by his supporters, on January 8, of places of power in Brasilia. .

A Supreme Court judge ordered in mid-April that Jair Bolsonaro be heard. On the day of the riots, the former Brazilian president was in Orlando, United States, and he has always denied his involvement in this event, which occurred a week after the inauguration of the left-wing head of state Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

On January 8, thousands of individuals refusing his defeat in the presidential election stormed the Presidential Palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, ransacking everything in their path. Some 1,800 people had been arrested.

Returning to Brazil at the end of May from a three-month stay in the United States after his defeat against Lula, Bolsonaro notably published a video on January 10, two days after the riots, contesting the results of Lula’s election.

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