“I determine that the Federal Police proceed to the hearing of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, within a maximum period of 10 days”ruled in his decision the magistrate of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes.
Police He did not inform until now when he will summon Bolsonaro.
The former president, who was in Orlando, United States, on the day of the attacks on the headquarters of the STF, Congress and the Planalto presidential palace, began to be investigated for the acts of vandalism on January 13 by decision of Moraes.
It was included, at the request of the prosecution, in the investigation that seeks to determine who were the instigators and masterminds of the looting to the offices of public authorities.
The prosecutor’s office cited a video that the former president uploaded to his social networks on the 10th of that month, two days after the attacks, questioning the electoral result of last October, when he was defeated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2022 presidential elections. .
“Bolsonaro’s hearing is essential for the complete clarification of the facts investigated,” Moraes said in his decision.
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On January 8, thousands of radicalized followers of Bolsonaro, dissatisfied with Lula’s victory in the presidential elections, invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the three powers.
They called for a military intervention to overthrow Lula da Silva, a week after his inauguration.
Bolsonaro has denied any participation in the vandalism by his followers and for which there were more than 1,800 detainees.
The former president (2019-2022) returned to Brazil on March 30, after having left the country two days before Lula’s inauguration on January 1.
On April 5, he had to give a statement to the federal police, in the investigation opened for the irregular entry of valuable jewelry given by Saudi Arabia in 2021.
The former president faces four other investigations in the highest court with sentences subject to imprisonment, in addition to more than a dozen administrative processes in the Superior Electoral Court for alleged abuse of political and economic power during the 2022 electoral lawsuit.
In addition, upon leaving the presidency and losing his privileged jurisdiction, a dozen investigation requests received by the STF also began to be referred to the ordinary courts for analysis at first instance.
The entrance Judge orders Bolsonaro to testify before police was first published on newspaper TODAY.
