Brazil’s federal police consider former President Jair Bolsonaro as evidence of an alleged coup attempt the video of an old meeting in which he invites us to “do something” before the 2022 election, according to records released this Friday by the Supreme Court.
“Everyone here (…) has something to lose. We can’t let the elections come and let what he is painting happen (…). We’ll have to do something first“says Bolsonaro during the meeting with his ministers held on July 5, 2022, three months before the elections.
The far-right former president, in line with his other well-known statements, complains about an electoral process that he believes is unfairly biased against him and says that if we don’t “react” before the elections “chaos” will break out a “great guerrilla” and a “bonfire”.
At the same time, Bolsonaro accuses several Supreme Court judges to be “getting everything ready” so that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva earn fraudulently in the first round of the elections, which will be held on 2 October 2022.
Federal police carry out raids in case of the events of January 8, 2023. Photo: Sergio Lima / AFPMagistrate Alexandre de Moraes, in charge of investigating the ultras attacks in Brasilia on 8 January 2023, authorized the dissemination of the videos after some excerpts were published in Brazilian media.
What do Bolsonaro’s lawyers say?
After the disclosure, Bolsonaro’s lawyer, Fabio Wajngarten, declared on social networks that the opinions appearing in the video They are “absolutely public” and that “they are part of democracy”, ruling out that the former president had supported the use of force to remain in power.
At a certain point in the video, Bolsonaro states that he is not proposing “measures of force. It is not about shooting, not about putting soldiers on the streets, about setting fires and machine gunning”.
The Federal Police investigates Bolsonaro for his alleged involvement in planning a coup, in which the imprisonment of Supreme Court judges was planned and the transfer of power was prevented, which is why on Thursday he asked for his passport and He banned him from leaving the country.
Furthermore, as part of the investigation, agents searched the homes of three former ministers and a former Navy commander involved in the alleged plot and arrested three former councilors of the far-right party and the president of its formation, Valdemar Costa Neto , of the Liberal Party…
Source: Clarin
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