Brazil: Supreme Court asked to investigate Bolsonaro’s role in riots

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The attorney general’s office has called for an investigation into Jair Bolsonaro and his possible responsibility in the looting of public buildings by his followers in the capital on January 8.

Brazil’s federal prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro’s role in the anti-democratic actions that resulted in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia last Sunday.

The attorney general’s office has called for an investigation into Jair Bolsonaro and his possible responsibility in the looting of public buildings by his followers in the capital on January 8.

Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since late December, is to be investigated on suspicion of being one of the “instigators and moral perpetrators” of the looting of national institutions in Brasilia, a week after the leftist took office as president. head of state Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, the prosecution explains in a statement.

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