The Federal Supreme Court ordered the Federal Police to take a statement from the former president.
He Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil, the country’s highest judicial instance, ordered that the Police summon the former president in no more than 10 days Jair Bolsonaro so that to listen to his version on the attack on institutions on January 8 by thousands of followers of the ex-president.
“I determine that the Federal Police proceed to the hearing of Jair Bolsonaro, within a maximum period of 10 days,” the magistrate ruled. Alexander de Moraesin charge of the investigation into the occupation of the headquarters of the three powers on the second Sunday of the year.
On that day, thousands of Bolsonaristas who rejected the triumph and the assumption of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva -who had been sworn in a week before- occupied and destroyed the Presidential Palace, Congress and the Superior Court in Brasilia. In the seizures, furniture, works of art and window glass were destroyed
Bolsonaro’s hearing request had been made by the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), reviewed the news site O Globo.
On January 10, two days after the attacks, the Attorney General’s Office made the request based on a video posted on social networks in which Bolsonaro once again questioned the result of the elections.
In the investigators’ assessment, The message seemed like a sign that the ex-president was encouraging the acts of invasion of the buildings of the three powers.
In his resolution, De Moraes wrote that the declaration constitutes “an essential measure for the complete clarification of the facts investigated,” reported the state Agencia Brasil.
Source: Ambito
