Former Brazil president to stand trial over alleged coup plot

Brazil's ultimate tribunal has decided to enactment erstwhile president Jair Bolsonaro connected proceedings implicit an alleged coup plot.

All 5 judges accepted the charges against him, related to an effort to cling to powerfulness aft his predetermination decision successful 2022.

Brazil's authoritative wide Paulo Gonet charged Mr Bolsonaro and 33 others past month.

The plans allegedly included poisoning his successor, existent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and sidesplitting a Supreme Court judge.

Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and says helium is being politically persecuted.

Coup charges transportation a condemnation of up to 12 years successful prison, and combined with different imaginable crimes, the person could look decades successful prison.

Mr Bolsonaro, a erstwhile service captain, was president from January 2019 to December 2022.

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Some of the judges person said that 7 of Mr Bolsonaro's adjacent allies whitethorn basal proceedings connected 5 counts.

These see allegations of attempting to signifier a coup, participating successful an equipped transgression gang, attempted convulsive abolition of the regularisation of law, harm characterised by violence, and a superior menace against the state's assets.

Casting his vote, Justice Flavio Dino said, "coups kill…It doesn't substance if it happens today, the pursuing month, oregon a fewer years later."

The authoritative wide said connected Tuesday that those facing charges wanted to support the ex-president successful powerfulness "at each costs" - and allegedly accelerated their plans erstwhile Mr Bolsonaro mislaid to the incumbent, Mr Lula da Silva.

Mr Gonet says that the coup did not spell up astatine the 11th hr arsenic Mr Bolsonaro failed to summation the enactment of the army's commander.

He said: "Frustration overwhelmed the members of the transgression organisation who, however, did not springiness up connected the convulsive seizure of power, not adjacent aft the elected president of the republic was sworn in".

His remark references a riot led by the far-right politician's supporters connected 8 January 2023, wherever the statesmanlike palace, the Supreme Court, and Congress were stormed and damaged.