The plea to look into former president Jair Bolsonaro on suspicion of instigating violence in the capital was granted by Brazil’s Supreme Court on Friday.
The presidential office, the legislature, and the Supreme Court are all located in the city of Brasilia, which was invaded and looted on Sunday by Bolsonaro’s followers. They were demonstrating against the controversial presidential election results from October, which socialist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won by a slim margin of less than 2%.
On January 10, Bolsonaro shared a video on Facebook in which a local official was heard saying, “Lula has not been elected by the Brazilian people.” In a statement, Judge Alexandre de Moraes said that Bolsonaro had “given a public invitation to commit crimes” by publishing the since-deleted video that questioned the validity of the vote. The former president’s speech and the violence, he said, had a “connection” despite the fact that the video was published two days after the assaults in Brasilia.
It’s crucial to note that former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has regularly engaged in the actions that are the subject of the current investigation, de Moraes stated.
The judge asked Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to keep the disputed video so that analysts could assess its effect. De Moraes stated that a hearing will be convened later and declined to request that Bolsonaro be questioned right now. Bolsonaro is now traveling abroad.
Former army captain Bolsonaro denounced the violence on Monday. Demonstrations that follow the law and are peaceful are essential to democracy. The former president wrote in reference to previous riots in Brasilia, “But depredations and invasions of public buildings as we witnessed today, like the crimes done by the left in 2013 and 2017, are not within the norms.
Lula, who took office on January 1, hypothesized that authorities may have assisted the riots. This week, he remarked, “We will examine carefully to establish what actually occurred.
Two days after the anniversary of the supporters of former President Donald Trump storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, rioting broke out in Brasilia. Given how frequently the two presidents have already been contrasted for their speech and manner, this led the media to draw even more comparisons between Trump and Bolsonaro.
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