In detail, Bolsonaro70 years old, currently meets house arrest and could face a condemnation of up to 43 years in prison If it is found guilty of the five positions of which he is accused. Your lawyer, Celso ViediHe confirmed that the ex -president will not be in the room for deliberation and denounced that “has no criminal responsibility”And that he is a victim of political persecution.
The final stage of the historic trial against Jair Bolsonaro
The Supreme Federal Court (STF) advances towards the most sensitive stage of the process by the coup attempt of January 2023. After issuing a sentence against 1,190 people —Inter executors who participated in the occupation of the Plaza de los Tres powers and inciters who collaborated in different ways, “the Court will now focus the trial on whom the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) considers the true leaders of the movement.
The accusation involves former president Bolsonaro, together with Four former ministers (Anderson Torres, Augusto Heleno, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and Walter Braga Netto), to the excomandant of the forces Armed Almir Garnierto the former chief of intelligence Alexandre Ramagem and the ex -helpant Mauro Cid, Become a Dorator. Six of them come from the military.
According to the PGR, the investigation against this “crucial nucleus” Gather messages, documents and videos that test a strategy to discredit the electoral system since 2021 and prepare a breakdown scenario in case of defeat, which finally happened. The file contains 1,764 tests that add 80 terabytes, equivalent to more than 26 million photographs or about 20,000 films in HD quality.
Bolsonaro faces charges by armed criminal organization, attempt at violent abolition of the democratic state of law, coup d’etat, damage to the heritage of the union with violence and serious threats, in addition to destruction of protected assets. Accumulated penalties could reach up to 43 years in prison. During his statement, he acknowledged having discussed “alternatives” after losing the 2022 elections, although he denied having designed a coup plan. “The plan did not prosper and the proposals were discarded,” he said.
For prosecutors, the former president led a “criminal organization“Destined to prevent the assumption of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvapromoting distrust of electronic polls and considering measures such as an emergency state, call to new elections and even The elimination of figures such as Lula, its vice president Geraldo Alckmin and Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The process will begin with the Presentation of evidence by Moraesfollowed by the final allegations. The vote of the five magistrates is scheduled for next week, and at least three votes will be needed to reach a conviction. According to political and judicial sources, the ruling would be known before September 12.
The trial transcends Brazil. United States president Donald Trump described the judicial process as a “Witch hunting”, He harshly criticized Brazilian justice and pointed against Moraes, who was subject to sanctions of the American treasure. Part of the Bolsonarismo adopted this position, trusting that international pressure can favor the ex -president.
However, international organizations and Brazilian civil society organizations support research, to the Highlight the need to clarify facts that tested democracy four decades after the end of the dictatorship.
The outcome will be decisive for Bolsonaro’s political future. A sentence could be left out of electoral career, in addition to exposing it to prison. Their allies, aware of that risk, are committed to the Congress promotes an amnesty law that allows you to dodge the judicial consequences. If approved, the Supreme Court should review the sentence, which would prolong the conflict in the legal and political plans.
What happened on January 8, 2023
On January 8, 2023, it was marked as one of the most serious episodes for Brazilian democracy. That day, thousands of Radicalized Bolsonaro followers broke into the Plaza de los Tres Powers in Brasilia and They simultaneously attacked the headquarters of the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. The Offensive left more than 370 convicted, more than 60 fugitives with extradition orders and to the former president under investigation to incite the assonated.
Mobilization, who sought to force a military intervention to ignore the electoral result where Lula was a winnerresulted in destruction of great magnitude in the buildings of the Planalto Palace, the Congress and the Supreme Federal Court. For about five hoursthe Brazilian capital was the scene of a chaos that tested the brand new government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Witnesses remember to have seen, in the afternoon, columns of protesters dressed in green and yellow marching from the headquarters of the Army to the Plaza de los Tres Powers. Initially, nothing made the violence that would be unleashed shortly after.
The assault took shape at 14:44, when the insurgents entered the Black Hall, direct access to the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies. From that moment, The mob advanced with greater organizationoccupying different areas of Congress and leaving in its path images of institutional devastation.
More than two years later, the wounds remain open and justice seeks to determine the responsibilities of the episodes.
Source: Ambito
