Brazil’s supreme court agreed to investigate former president Jair Bolsonaro as part of its probe into the “instigators and intellectual authors' behind the assault by thousands of his supporters on the congress, presidential palace and supreme court.
BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s supreme court on Friday agreed to investigate former president Jair Bolsonaro as part of its probe into the “instigators and intellectual authors" behind the assault by thousands of his supporters Sunday on the congress, presidential palace and supreme court.The investigation was requested Friday by the attorney general’s office, which cited a video Bolsonaro posted on Facebook on Tuesday questioning the credibility of the election he lost in October.
Prosecutors argued the video should be investigated as evidence of a “crime of incitement,” which is punishable by three to six months in jail or a fine. The investigation into the former president’s activities is part of seven sweeping probes by the court into the attack. Investigators are working to identify financiers, masterminds, instigators and any authorities who participated.Instigators and intellectual authors include those who promoted “coup-supporting theories” that helped mobilize the mob through social networks, prosecutors said.
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