The Supreme Court of Brazil determined late this Friday that former President Jair Bolsonaro testify before the Police within a period of 10 days, within the framework of a process that investigates the attempted coup on January 8.
On that date, thousands of far-right activists who support Bolsonaro assaulted the three powers of the Nation in Brasilia, with the intention of forcing a military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had assumed power eight days earlier. .
That day, Bolsonaro was in the United States, where he had traveled on December 30, still in his capacity as president, with the intention of not handing over the presidential sash to Lula, whose victory at the polls last October always raised suspicions. .
The thousands of Bolsonaristas who assaulted the headquarters of the Supreme Court, the Parliament and the Presidency on January 8 had been camped for more than two months at the gates of the Army barracks demanding a coup, in an anti-democratic attitude that the leader of the ultra-right did not condemn and even endorsed it.
Due to these events, 2,151 people were arrested, of which 294 remain in prison, while the rest will answer before the courts in freedom.
The Supreme Court has included Bolsonaro among those investigated, in order to determine if, even though he was in the United States that day, from where he returned on March 30, he incited that movement or if he even had a role in planning the coup attempt.
The former president is being investigated in a dozen processes that are being processed in the ordinary Justice and in another four that are also in the Supreme Court, as well as responding in other cases before the Electoral Justice.
One of the latter, referring to his aggressive smear campaigns against the electronic voting system used in Brazil, will be tried in the coming weeks and, if found guilty, the far-right leader may lose all his political rights. for eight years.
