Brazil’s highest prosecutor has sued former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 other people for an attempted coup after his election defeat in 2022, international press agencies report. According to Attorney General Paulo Gonet, Bolsonaro agreed, among other things, a plan to poison his successor Lula da Silva and to shoot supreme judge Alexandre de Moraes.
“Under the sinister name ‘Green and Yellow Dolk’, a conspiracy has been forged in the presidential palace to overthrow the democratic order,” Gonet writes in his 272 -page indictment. “The plan was presented to the president and he agreed.”
In addition to Bolsonaro, several former ministers and a former navy officer have also been charged. “The responsibility for the harmful acts for democracy lies with a criminal organization, led by Jair Messiah Bolsonaro, which is based on an authoritarian power project,” writes the prosecutor.
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The charges arise from a large -scale investigation that the federal police did into Bolsonaro’s attempts to cling to the power and the storming of government buildings on January 8, 2023 after the lost elections to prevent Lula from being appointed to President.
Bolsonaro always denies all accusations and speaks of a witch hunt by political opponents. “Have you ever seen an assignment for coup?” He told journalists on Tuesday morning during a visit to the Senate. “You don’t have that. And not me either.
The Supreme Court must now decide whether there will actually be a criminal case against the former president. With a conviction, he can get 12 to 28 years in prison.