Last Updated: April 15, 2023, 04:11 IST
Investigators are probing whether or not the rioters had inside assist from excessive up in Jair Bolsonaro’s camp. (Image: Reuters/File Photo)
Justice Alexandre de Moraes dominated Bolsonaro had to seem earlier than federal police inside 10 days to reply questions over accusations
A Supreme Court decide in Brazil on Friday ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro to face questioning over riots within the seat of energy by his supporters on January 8 — the newest authorized quagmire for the far-right chief.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes dominated Bolsonaro had to seem earlier than federal police inside 10 days to reply questions over accusations he incited the rioters, who invaded the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court calling for the ouster of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
“I grant the request by the prosecutor common’s workplace and decide the federal police should take Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s testimony inside a most of 10 days,” Moraes wrote in the ruling, obtained by AFP.
Moraes had previously ruled on January 13 that Bolsonaro be placed under investigation in the case.
But he had postponed a ruling on the request by prosecutors for Bolsonaro to be questioned, as the ex-president was in the US state of Florida at the time.
Bolsonaro left for Orlando in the final days of his term, after refusing to concede his defeat to Lula at the polls.
Lula, who previously led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, narrowly beat Bolsonaro in a brutal, divisive election last October.
Thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the halls of power in Brasilia in January, a week after Lula took office.
In scenes reminiscent of the January 6, 2021 riots in Washington by supporters of ex-president Donald Trump — Bolsonaro’s political role model — they trashed offices, vandalized artworks and called for the military to intervene to oust Lula.
Prosecutors had asked for Bolsonaro to face questioning over a video he posted online — and later deleted — two days after the attacks, in which he questioned the legitimacy of Lula’s election.
However, they said their probe of the ex-president would not be limited to the video, but a “full investigation of all acts before and after January 8.”
More than 1,800 individuals have been arrested over the occasions of January 8.
They embrace Bolsonaro’s former justice minister Anderson Torres, who was Brasilia’s public safety chief on the time of the riots.
Investigators are probing whether or not the rioters had inside assist from excessive up in Bolsonaro’s camp.
– Legal woes –
Bolsonaro, who denies any involvement within the riots, returned to Brazil on March 30, vowing to oppose Lula’s authorities.
But he faces quite a few authorized woes again house.
He already confronted questioning by federal police final week in a separate case, over accusations he tried to illegally maintain thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ value of diamond jewellery acquired as a present from Saudi Arabia throughout his presidency.
He faces a complete of 4 Supreme Court investigations that might ship him to jail, and likewise 16 circumstances earlier than Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
The TSE may strip him of his proper to run for workplace for eight years, taking him out of the 2026 presidential race.
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