Former Brazil President Bolsonaro for trial on the coup

Former Brazil President Jeir Bolsonaro will be tested for a trial, trying to make a coup against current President Luis Inasio Lula da Silva, following a judgment from the best court in the country.

The five -member panel of the Supreme Court voted unanimously for the benefit of the trial forward.

The 70 -year -old Bolsonaro denies trying to block Lula’s post and says he is a victim of a “political persecution” aimed at preventing him from running for president in 2026.

The process can move on this year. If found guilty, Bolsonaro may face years in prison.

The panel was tasked with determining if there was sufficient evidence to undergo a Bolsonaro in the process of testing.

The first to vote on Wednesday was the judge to head the Alexander de Moraes group.

He recommended Bolsonaro, as well as seven other former civil servants, described by the Prosecutor General as “coins”, to withstand the events that led to the storming of government buildings by his supporters on January 8, 2023, a week after the opening of Lula.

The seven men accused of co -conspiracies are:

• Alexander Ramagem, former spy chief
• Adm Almir Garnie Santos, a former Navy commander
• Anderson Torres, former Security Minister
• August Hyleno gene, former Minister of Institutional Security
• Mauro Sid, a former Bolsonaro assistant
• Gen. Walter Braga Neto, former Defense Minister
• Gen Paulo Sergio Nogeri de Oliveira former Minister of Defender

Bolsonaro, a former captain of the army and US President Donald Trump, has run Brazil from January 2019 to December 2022.

He narrowly lost the leakage of the presidential election in October 2022 to his left rival Lula.

Bolsonaro never publicly acknowledges his defeat. Many of his supporters spent weeks off the army barracks in an attempt to persuade the military from preventing Lula from sworn as a president, as scheduled on January 1, 2023.

A week after the Lula’s office, on January 8, 2023, thousands of supporters of Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in the capital, Brazil, in what federal investigators say it is an attempt to coup.

Parts of the buildings were destroyed and police arrested 1,500 people.

Bolsonaro was in the United States at that time and always denied any relationship with the rebels.

A federal police investigation of the riots and events leading to them has launched.

Investigators said they had found evidence that there was a “criminal organization” that “acted in a coordinated manner” to support then President Bolsonaro in power.

Their 884 -page report, which was printed in November 2024, claims that “then President Jair Messias Bolsonaro is planning, acting and directly aware of the actions of a criminal organization, which aims to begin a coup and eliminate the democratic law of law.

The Brazil General, Paulo Gennet, went even more to his report, published last month, in which he accused Bolsonaro of not only aware, but in the leadership of the criminal organization, which he said he was striving to take down.

According to the Gonet report, the alleged plot includes a plan for the poisoning of a pipe and the shooting of the dead Alexander de Moraes, the justice of the Supreme Court, who headed the group, who has now decided that the case should proceed to a lawsuit.

Bolsonaro has always denied the allegations that he believes are politically motivated and are intended to stop him from running for president again.

While he was already forbidden to run for public office by 2030, as he fiercely claims that the Brazil vote system was vulnerable to fraud, he announced his intention to fight this ban in order to run for a second term in 2026.

However, the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday put a very large obstacle to his path to a possible application.