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Brazil’s Supreme Court will investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro’s alleged involvement in the Jan. 8 attack on government buildings in the capital Brasilia.
The court’s decision follows a request from Brazil’s public prosecutor’s office, several of whose members released a statement on Friday describing the events of the day – when Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed and destroyed government buildings to protest the election of his rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – as “anti-democratic acts. ”
“By posting a video on January 10 (two days after the attack) questioning the legitimacy of the 2022 presidential election, Bolsonaro incited the public to commit crimes,” the statement said.
On Tuesday, Bolsonaro shared a Facebook video of a woman questioning the victory of Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in the October presidential election. After a few hours, the video was deleted.
Prosecutors say even though the video was posted after the attack, there is a “connection” between the content of Bolsonaro’s video and the violence in Brasilia.
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it had accepted the government prosecutor’s request to investigate Bolsonaro’s alleged involvement.
It also approved the prosecutor’s request to ask Meta to preserve the video posted on Facebook and investigate its impact.
So far, the former far-right Brazilian president has not been directly linked or implicated in the investigation into the January 8 incident.
Separately from the prosecutor’s request and without naming any specific charges, Bolsonaro’s lawyer Frederic Wasser said Friday that the former president had always “rejected all illegal and criminal acts… and has always been a defender of the constitution and democracy.”
“President Bolsonaro strongly rejects acts of vandalism and degradation of public dignity committed by protest intruders. He never had any connection or participation in this spontaneous social movement made by the people,” Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the former president, said in a statement on Friday.
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