A judge of the Federal Supreme Court ordered the hearing within ten days of the former head of the extreme right state, whose sympathizers had invaded places of power in January.
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He will have to explain his role in the riots in Brasilia. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro “must be heard by the federal police within a maximum of ten days” in the investigation into the violence of January 8 in the Brazilian capital, ordered a judge of the Supreme Court, Friday April 14.
On January 8, thousands of individuals refusing the defeat of the far-right president-candidate stormed the Presidential Palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court, a week after the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. , winner of the presidential with 50.9% of the vote, against 49.1% for the incumbent.
The assailants had easily crossed the security cordon to ransack everything in their path. This violence in Brasilia had recalled the invasion of the Capitol, two years earlier in Washington (United States), by supporters of Donald Trump refusing to accept his defeat against Joe Biden.