Former Brazilian far-right president Jair Bolsonaro appeared earlier than federal police on Wednesday to testify over anti-government riots by his supporters on January 8, a police supply advised AFP.
Bolsonaro is being investigated for his alleged function in masterminding and instigating the riots that sought the overthrow of his successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro, who returned to Brazil in late March after spending three months in Florida, has at all times denied his involvement within the riots.
Bolsonaro arrived on the federal police headquarters in Brasilia in a automobile with tinted home windows and made no assertion to the press.
Lula, who beforehand led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, narrowly beat Bolsonaro in a brutal, divisive election final October.
Thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace in Brasilia in January, per week after Lula took workplace.
In scenes harking back to the January 6, 2021 riots in Washington by supporters of ex-president Donald Trump — Bolsonaro’s political function mannequin — they trashed places of work, smashed home windows, vandalized artworks and known as for the army to intervene to oust Lula.
Some 1,800 folks have been arrested.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
