Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Friday to include former President Jair Bolsonaro in an investigation into the incitement of the January 8 riot that saw demonstrators temporarily break into various government buildings.
Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Friday to include former President Jair Bolsonaro in an investigation into the incitement of the January 8 riot that saw demonstrators temporarily break into various government buildings in the nation’s capital.The Attorney General’s Office of Brazil requested the Supreme Court investigate the former president in an investigation that looks at the “instigation and intellectual authorship of anti-democratic acts that resulted in episodes of vandalism and violence in Brasilia last Sunday,” according to a statement from the AG’s office on Friday.The probe into Bolsonaro is one of seven by the court that is related to the attack.Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted the request from the AG’s office, which cited evidence of a video that Bolsonaro posted to Facebook just two days after the riot in Brasilia. In the video, an attorney in Mato Grosso allegedly called into question the legitimacy of the presidential election that Bolsonaro lost to now-President Lula da Silva in October. The video reportedly claimed Silva was not voted into office via a democratic election, but was instead chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil’s electoral offices.
