The president of Workers Party (PT), Hoffmann’s bluesrequested this Thursday prison for the former president Jair Bolsonaroafter the Federal Police accused him of plotting a coup d’état to remain in power after his electoral defeat in 2022.
Hoffmann stated that the police complaints “open the way” for Bolsonaro and his circle to “pay for the crimes they committed against Brazil and democracy”.
“Trying to commit fraud in the elections, assassinate authorities and install a dictatorship. Prison is what they deserve“Hoffmann wrote on social networks, also rejecting the amnesty that Bolsonaro had promoted for himself and his followers, who carried out the violent acts against the headquarters of the Presidencyhe Congress and the Supreme Court in January 2023.
The Federal Police filed charges against 37 people, including Bolsonaro and several high-ranking military officers, accused of “violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état and illicit association.”
He general inspector of Brazil, Paulo Gonetyou must analyze the police report to decide whether to file a formal complaint with the Supreme Federal Court.
Meanwhile, authorities arrested four soldiers and a Federal Police agent linked to an alleged plan to assassinate the president. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvato the vice president Geraldo Alckmin and the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraeswho is investigating the case against Bolsonaro.
Lula, in an event with businessmen, was grateful for “being alive” and committed to restoring “democratic normality” in Brazil.
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro attributed the accusations against him presented this Thursday by the Federal Police to the “creativity” of a Supreme Court judge.
”Magistrate Alexandre de Moraes conducts the entire investigation, adjusts the testimonies, arrests without complaint, casts nets to fish for possible evidence and has quite creative advice.“said the former president in a statement released on his social networks after being informed of the accusations
He questioned the impartiality of the investigation and announced that he will review the allegations together with his lawyer.
“That will obviously go through the Attorney General’s Office, where the fight begins. I can’t expect anything from a team that uses creativity to report me”, he assured.
The allusion to the “creativity” of the Supreme Court, as Bolsonaro himself explains, is supported by a message sent by an assistant judge to De Moraes to a prosecutor.
In that message, leaked and disseminated on the internet, the judge urges the prosecutor to “use creativity” to file a complaint against a magazine that sympathizes with Bolsonaro.
Those denounced in the process investigating an attempted coup d’état in December 2022, after the presidential elections in which Lula defeated Bolsonaro and a few weeks after the progressive leader assumed his mandate, were accused of the crimes of “violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état and illicit association”.
The attempted coup d’état occurred on January 8, 2023, a week after Lula’s inauguration, when thousands of far-right activists assaulted the headquarters of the Supreme Court, Congress and the Presidency, with the intention of inciting the military to overthrow Lula.
(With information from EFE)
