Brazil's prosecutors ask top court to investigate Bolsonaro role in Brasilia riots

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Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia.

Bolsonaro will be investigated for possible "instigation and intellectual authorship of the anti-democratic acts that resulted in vandalism and violence in Brasilia last Sunday," a statement posted on the top public prosecutor's website said.

Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters vandalized the Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace last weekend, seeking to provoke chaos and a military coup that would oust Lula and restore the far-right leader to power Torres, who is in Florida, has said he plans to return to Brazil to turn himself in, while Bolsonaro, who is also in Florida, said on social media he will bring forward his return to the country.

The arrest warrant against Torres was issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who removed Brasilia's security chief from his post just hours after the rampage.interfere in the result of the October electionTorres claimed the document was among others in a stack that was being thrown out. He said they were "leaked" to Folha de S.Paulo newspaper in his absence to create a "false narrative.

 

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He was in Florida

BOLSONARO IS A FASCIST!

Dictatorship in the make

If only we had leadership like that.

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