Brazil charges former president Bolsonaro over alleged coup plot

Prosecutors in Brazil have charged former President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday with overseeing the plot to remove an elected government from office after his loss to incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the 2022 election, complicating his narrow chances of a political comeback.
The indictment of Mr Bolsonaro followed a two-year Brazil’s federal police investigation into election-denying movement that resulted in the politician’s supporters descending into violence as they stormed the capital just one week after Mr Lula assumed office.
Many of the protesters, at the time, admitted that the decision to create chaos was to give the military justification to carry out a coup which they had thought was imminent.
Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet charged Mr Bolsonaro, his running mate Walter Braga and dozens of other people, accusing the former president of leading a “criminal organisation” that wanted to create a new order in the country, including with plans to poison Mr Lula.
According to Reuters, 34 people were charged by the prosecutors, including several military officials, such as Mr Bolsonaro’s former national security adviser, Augusto Heleno, and Almir Garnier Santos.
Meanwhile, Mr Bolsonaro’s lawyers have rejected the allegations, stating that the far right politician has never supported any moment that seeks to undermine the democratic rule of law or institutions that uphold it in the country.
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