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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared this Wednesday two hours before the Federal Police and He denied having ties to the attempted coup. against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva perpetrated by hundreds of his followers with attacks on the headquarters of the three State powers, on January 8 in Brasilia.
Bolsonaro is suspected of instigating the coup for having encouraged the specter of fraud in 2022 without evidence before losing the elections to Lula in October. Two days after the assault on the powers in Brasilia, he even posted a video on his social networks linking Lula’s victory to an alleged fraud.
However, one of his lawyers told reporters this Wednesday at the end of his statement in Brasilia that Bolsonaro told the Police that the election is a thing of the past, that he repudiated the attacks on January 8 and had nothing to do with them.
“The election for President Bolsonaro is a page from the past. That’s what he said. The president repudiated the attacks,” Paulo Cunha Bueno said after a statement that lasted more than two hours.
“The former president considers the electoral period a page from the past. He made the transition and left the country. He repudiated the attacks as he did on Twitter on the night of January 8. That was repudiated in the statement,” insisted the lawyer, who He was accompanied by Bolsonaro’s former spokesman and former Minister of Social Communication, Fabio Wajngarten.
The ex-president was included in the Federal Supreme Court investigation, for which 1,390 people were arrested for having invaded and financed the assault on the powers that be with the aim of having the Army strike President Lula, ignoring the October election of 2022 won by the leader of the Workers’ Party.
Bolsonaro is part of the mega-cause after having published a video on social networks that talked about fraud in the October elections, supposedly endorsing the attempted coup against Lula on January 8, in which hundreds of his supporters vandalized the Planalto Palace , Congress and the Federal Supreme Court.
Bolsonaro prepared for four hours on Tuesday with his team of lawyers and advisers to testify this Wednesday.
In recent months, the 68-year-old former president said he did not agree with the destruction but called for the release of the detainees, considering them “good people.”
Bolsonaro is the honorary president of the Liberal Party and lives in a country house rented by that political force, which pays him a monthly salary of around 7,000 dollars.
The far-right questioned the electoral justice for the result of the election and his movements are being investigated to determine if he was the intellectual author of the camps in front of the Army barracks that led to the assault on the powers that be on January 8, one after Lula’s assumption of his third presidency.
Bolsonaro was the first Brazilian president to lose re-election and before handing over power to Lula he left the country on December 30, to spend a three-month period in Orlando, United States, at the home of a businessman friend.
This case is being investigated by Judge Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, who is also investigating it in the mega-fake news case that began in 2020.
It is the second statement by the former president in less than a month after going to the same police headquarters to offer his version in the case of the alleged smuggling of jewels granted to Brazil by the Saudi government and that Bolsonaro kept for himself as if they were personal gifts. .
