The Attorney General of Brazil has denounced on Tuesday to the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and another thirty people for a coup attempt after the victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections of 2022, in which it has been the first complaint against A former state of the Ibero -American country for trying to attempt against the rule of law.
The Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, has accused a total of 34 people for “encouraging and executing acts against the three powers and against the democratic state of law”, referring to the assault of January 2023 by a mob of followers of the followers of the former president who protested by the electoral result.
In particular, the denounced have been accused of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the democratic state of law, coup d’etat, qualified damage with serious violence and threat against goods and with considerable damage to the victim, and deterioration of heritage.
“The accusations are based on documents, digital archives and exchanges of messages that reveal the scheme of rupture of the democratic order. And they describe in detail the conspiracy plot mounted and executed against democratic institutions. The organization had as leaders the president and his candidate To vice president, “says a statement.
The Public Ministry has stressed that Bolsonaro, “together with other people, both civil and military, tried to prevent, in a coordinated manner, to meet the result of the presidential elections of 2022”. However, he said that “the plan began in 2021”.
According to the complaint, during the ultra -rightist mandate, this “adopted an increasing tone of rupture with institutional normality in his repeated public statements, in which he expressed his discontent with decisions of higher courts and with the electronic electoral system in force.”
“That climbing won a greater impulse when (…) Lula, seen as the strongest contender in the electoral career, became eligible, due to the cancellation of his criminal sentences,” says the document.
In addition, in July 2022, Bolsonaro met with accredited diplomatic representatives in the country “to verbalize the well -known and denied accusations of fraud in electronic voting machines.” During the second electoral round, security agencies “were mobilized to prevent voters from voting for the opposition candidate.”
He also said that “those involved maintained their fraud rhetoric and maintained their activism with camps installed in front of army barracks in several capitals of the country”, while “the criminal organization pressed” high positions of the army, “writing letters and letters and stirring colleagues in favor of strength actions on the political scene to prevent the elected president from assuming the position. ”
Gonet has declared that Bolsonaro “approved” an organized plan to execute the coup, in which “death was even admitted” by poisoning of the elected president (Lula) “, of his vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, and the use of” weapons of War “against the judge of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes”.
“The violence of January 8 (from 2023) was the last attempt. The organization encouraged the mobilization of the group of people in front of the Army Headquarters in Brasilia, who requested military intervention in politics. The participants carried out the route accompanied and escorted By military police of the Federal District, invading and vandalizing the headquarters of the three powers. (3.4 million euros), “he added.
Bolsonaro’s defense, outraged by accusations
The former president of the former president has said to be “shocked and outraged by the accusations made by the Prosecutor’s Office”, since, as he said, Bolsonaro “has never supported any movement that intends to deconstruct the democratic state of law or the institutions that enable it” .
In a statement published by the lawyer Paul Cunha, the defense has asserted that “despite two years of investigations -period in which he was subject to thorough investigative efforts, largely supported by invasive precautionary measures, including the preventive prison of supporters close- no element was found that even remotely linked “to Bolsonaro” with the narrative built in the complaint. ”
“There is no message from (then) president that supports the accusation, despite a search carried out on their personal phones. The inept accusation reaches the point of attributing participation in contradictory plans and based on a single guilt agreement, altered several times, for an informant who questions his own voluntariness, “he said.
Therefore, he has considered that “it is no accident that he changed his version innumerable times to build a fantastic narrative.” “Bolsonaro trusts justice and, therefore, believes that this complaint will not prosper for its precariousness, incoherence and lack of truthful facts that support it to the Judiciary,” he concluded.
In the event that the Supreme Court admits the complaint, the ex -president will become charged and will face a criminal process in court.