Bolsonaro in the crosshairs of Brazilian justice for the riots

He will have to be held accountable. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose relatives had already been implicated, is now himself directly targeted by justice for his role in the ransacking of national institutions in Brasilia.

The General Prosecutor’s Office asked the Supreme Court on Friday to submit the former far-right head of state to an investigation “which seeks to clarify the instigation and moral magisterium of the anti-democratic acts which have led to episodes of vandalism and of violence in Brasilia” on Sunday.

Jair Bolsonaro, narrowly beaten by left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, “performed a public incitement to the execution of a crime” by posting a video on social networks “questioning the regularity of the election presidential election of 2022, ”explained the prosecution in a press release.

Bolsonaro in the United States

The video was published two days after the violent invasion of the headquarters of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court by thousands of Bolsonarists, then deleted, the prosecution recalled, but it could provide “a link of proof” justifying “ a global investigation into the acts carried out before and after January 8, 2023” by Jair Bolsonaro.

The ex-president, who has been in the United States since the end of December, had already been pinned on Friday for lavish spending during his mandate with the presidential credit card, such as the 20,000 euros disbursed in one go in a modest restaurant in the north Brazil or the 10,000 euros in a bakery the day after his son’s wedding.

Account statements for the presidential credit card over his four years in office (2019-2022) have been published on an official online site of the Lula government, which has begun to lift a 100-year secrecy imposed by his predecessor on accounts. thousands of official documents.

But the prosecutor’s request for an investigation also follows a revelation already linked to the remake of the assault on the American Capitol on January 6, 2021, and which implicates the ex-Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres, in whom a a draft decree was found which could have allowed the annulment of the election of Lula to the presidency.

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Possible extradition request against the former Minister of Justice

This very compromising document revealed Thursday evening by the daily Folha de S. Paulo was found during searches by the Federal Police at the home of this former minister, who is the subject of an arrest warrant from a judge of the Supreme Court for alleged “collusion” in the Bolsonarists who took storming places of power in Brasilia on Sunday.

“We will wait for him to show up until Monday. If this is not the case, we will launch the extradition request procedure next week, ”announced Flavio Dino, Minister of Justice for Lula, in office since January 1, on Friday. Anderson Torres, who is in the United States, has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence and promised to return to Brazil to surrender to the authorities, without giving a precise date.

The three-page document found at his home provides for the federal government to take control of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), which oversees the smooth running of the ballot, “to ensure the preservation and restoration of transparency, and to approve the regularity of the electoral process for the 2022 presidential election”.

A measure considered unconstitutional by many jurists. In practice, this means that the intention would have been to annul Lula’s election. The presidential decree – which never saw the light of day – provided for the creation of an “electoral regulation commission” to replace the TSE, headed by a majority of members from the Ministry of Defense (8 out of 17). The document is not dated, but the name of Jair Bolsonaro is at the end, on a space provided for his signature.

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