Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is “not afraid of any trial,” a day after paperwork launched by the Supreme Courtroom revealed that two prime navy leaders mentioned the populist plotted to stay in energy after dropping the 2022 election
RIO DE JANEIRO — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mentioned Saturday he was “not afraid of any trial,” a day after paperwork launched by the Supreme Courtroom revealed that two prime navy leaders mentioned the populist plotted to stay in energy after dropping the 2022 election.
Bolsonaro prevented commenting on the content material of any of a number of investigations concentrating on him, however claimed he was a sufferer of “persecution” for inflicting bother for the nation’s political left. Authorities in February confiscated Bolsonaro’s passport.
“I might very effectively be abroad, however I made a decision to come back again right here in any respect prices. I’m not afraid of any trial, so long as the judges are neutral,” Bolsonaro mentioned in Rio de Janeiro, talking at a marketing campaign occasion within the metropolis’s mayoral race.
The court docket paperwork launched Saturday included testimony from Bolsonaro’s former Military and Air Pressure commanders to police, who mentioned they refused the previous chief’s calls for and would arrest him if he tried to remain in energy.
The testimonies embrace the primary direct mentions of the right-wing chief as actively taking part in a conspiracy to disregard the outcomes of the October 2022 election gained by his rival, present President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
On the identical time the brand new data was revealed, Bolsonaro gave the impression to be touring to totally different cities in Rio de Janeiro state, posting movies to X, previously Twitter. The embattled politician was featured surrounded by throngs of supporters cheering and sporting Brazil’s yellow soccer jersey, which has became an emblem of his feverish right-wing motion.
The statements solely added to a rising pile of authorized woes for Bolsonaro as prosecutors search to search out hyperlinks between the far-right chief and the Jan. 8, 2023 riots that trashed authorities buildings within the capital Brasilia one week after Lula’s inauguration.
The correct-wing populist has denied allegations that he and his supporters tried a coup in the course of the 2023 assaults.
