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Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege
Newly disclosed court documents say that former President Jair Bolsonaro offered top Brazilian military officers with a plot to execute a coup after losing the 2022 election.
On Friday, the country’s Supreme Court published former army commander Marco Antonio Freire Gomes and former Air Force commander Carlos de Almeida Baptista Jr.’s testimony to the Brazilian Federal Police.
Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege
Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege
The ex president allegedly proposed the plan at a meeting held on December 7, 2022, at the presidential palace in Brasilia.
According to papers, both Gomes and Baptista Jr. testified that they refused to carry outThe ex presidents purported plan to remain in power and threatened to arrest him.
The ex president turned in his passport to authorities in early February as part of a police probe into an alleged coup attempt. The former President has disputed the charges.
Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege
Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege
He recently organized a march in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, in “defense of the democratic rule of law.”
Last year, the country’s top electoral court prevented The ex president from running for political office until 2030 for abusing his position and manipulating public media during the 2022 election campaign.
Bolsonaro’s followers rioted and broke into government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023, after leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated him.
The ex president has denied encouraging the violent attacks in the capital.
Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege 1
Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Presented Coup Plot To Military Leaders, Court Documents Allege
According to CNN Brasil, he suggested that the legislature grant “amnesty for those poor people who are imprisoned in Brasília,” referring to the January 8 riots.
SOURCE – (CNN)
