BRASILIA (BRAZIL) (ITALPRESS) – Brazil’s Supreme Court has granted a request by the Attorney General’s Office to remand Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for trial. The charge is that he participated in an alleged coup to prevent Inacio Luiz Lula da Silva from assuming the office of president after elections he won in 2022. Bolsonaro reacted to the news by calling the charges “serious and unfounded.”
According to the former head of state, the charges represent an “attack on democracy” and serve to avert his participation in the next presidential election, set for 2026. Bolsonaro faces a sentence ranging from 12 to 43 years in prison. In addition to Bolsonaro, four of his former ministers, namely Justice Minister Anderson Torres, Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto, another Defense Department holder, Paulo Sergio Nogueira, and former head of Institutional Security, Augusto Heleno, will be charged in the trial. Also going on trial will be the former director general of intelligence, Alexandre Ramagem, and former Navy commander Almir Garnier as well as Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, who later became a collaborator with the judiciary.
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