The Supreme Court of Brazil announces that it will try Bolsonaro for the coup attempt | Short news

The former president was accused of five crimes, in particular by trying a coup.

The Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the former president Jair Bolsonaro To be tried for trying a coup after failing to win the re -election in 2022.

Bolsonaro, a former far -right army captain who was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2022, is accused of five crimes, including an alleged attempt to violently abolish democratic law. He denounced the accusations against him as “serious and unfounded”.

On Wednesday, a panel of five judges decided unanimously to put Bolsonaro in trial. If he is found guilty in legal proceedings, later awaited this year, Bolsonaro could incur a long prison sentence, is more. He did not appoint political heir.

In his opening remarks, judge Alexandre de Moraes, who oversees the case, projected spectacular images of the supporters of Bolsonaro to storm government buildings in violent scenes which took place only a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in January 2023.

Moraes added that Bolsonaro had led “a systematic effort to launch a doubt about the electronic voting machines” used in Brazil, part of his efforts to undermine the elections he lost.

Reporting from Buenos Aires, Teresa Bo of Al Jazeera recalled the chaotic and violent scenes in January 2023, when the supporters of Bolsonaro stormed the capital Brasilia, refusing to accept the inauguration of the new president.

“A week after Lula was sworn in, we saw thousands of supporters from President Bolsonaro to storm buildings in Brazil. There were chaos scenes in the capital … About 1,500 people were detained,” she said.

The Supreme Court began to examine charges against Bolsonaro and seven of its closest allies on Tuesday in a session in which Bolsonaro voluntarily attended, sit down silently in the first row in an echo of his ally, the trial of American president Donald Trump last year.

From the perspective of the hearing of the historic court, Bolsonaro called a rally by the sea in Rio de Janeiro, hoping to seize the congress of popularity and pressure from Lula to adopt a bill of amnesty promoting him and his imprisoned supporters.

The demonstration, which suggested certain allies could draw more than a million donors, was largely considered to be washing after two independent survey companies found that only 20,000 and 30,000 people arose.

Meanwhile, Bolsonaro continued to emphasize the fact that he will present himself again to the presidency next year, despite a decision of the Brazil Superior Electoral Court which prevented him from presenting himself to public functions until 2030 for his efforts to discredit the country’s voting system.

Bolsonaro’s treatment of the COVVI-19 crisis while the president also attracted an intensive legal examination.