Following the 2022 election, which Bolsonaro lost, the Brazilian federal police proposed 37 individuals for crimes, including attempted coup d’état, including former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro and others are suspected of violently overthrowing the Democratic state of law, committing a coup d’etat, and constituting a criminal organization, according to a statement from federal police.
A week after his opponent, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, took office in January 2023, Bolsonaro’s followers seized the city, Brasilia, in rioting, sparking doubt about his involvement in the election-denying movement.
The final police report puts an end to nearly two years of conjecture. Many demonstrators said they intended to cause mayhem in order to support a military takeover.
According to investigators, several of the accused conspirators planned to kill Lula. The prosecutor general’s office will determine whether to file charges against Bolsonaro and any accused former aides once police submit their findings to Brazil’s Supreme Court.
Senior officials of Bolsonaro’s administration were named by police, including retired Gen. Augusto Heleno, national security advisor, and his 2022 running partner, retired Gen. Walter Braga Netto, defense minister.
Days before Lula took office, Bolsonaro fled Brazil, refusing to acknowledge his electoral defeat in October 2022.
After supporters attacked and destroyed the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive presidential palace, he returned to Brazil and gave up his passport to authorities who were looking into his involvement in the capital riots.
