Brazilian ex-President Bolsonaro ordered to stand trial over alleged coup plan

• A sheet of justices connected Brazil’s Supreme Court connected Wednesday accepted charges against erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro implicit an alleged effort to enactment successful bureau aft his 2022 predetermination defeat, and ordered him to basal trial.
• Bolsonaro and 33 others are accused of attempting a coup that included a program to poison his successor, existent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and termination a Supreme Court judge.
• Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and says he’s being politically persecuted.

A sheet of justices connected Brazil’s Supreme Court connected Wednesday accepted charges against erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro implicit an alleged effort to enactment successful bureau aft his 2022 predetermination defeat, and they ordered the erstwhile person to basal trial.

All 5 justices ruled successful favour of accepting the charges leveled by Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who accused Bolsonaro and 33 others of attempting a coup that included a program to poison his successor, existent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and termination a Supreme Court judge.

The justices said 7 adjacent allies should besides basal proceedings connected 5 counts: attempting to signifier a coup, engagement successful an equipped transgression organization, attempted convulsive abolition of the antiauthoritarian regularisation of law, harm characterized by unit and a superior menace to the state’s assets, and deterioration of listed heritage.

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The erstwhile president has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and says he’s being politically persecuted. A lawyer for Bolsonaro did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Under Brazilian law, a coup condemnation carries a condemnation of up to 12 years. When combined with the different charges, it could effect successful a condemnation of decades down bars.

"Coups kill," Justice Flávio Dino said erstwhile casting his vote. "It doesn’t substance if it happens today, the pursuing period oregon a fewer years later."

Brazil's erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the property arsenic helium arrives astatine the Brasilia International Airport successful Brasilia, Brazil, connected March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)

Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet connected Tuesday said those facing the charges sought to support Bolsonaro successful powerfulness "at each costs," successful a multistep strategy that accelerated aft the far-right person mislaid to the existent president.

As successful his February indictment, Gonet said portion of the crippled included a program to termination Lula and Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who were enactment nether surveillance by the alleged conspirators.

The program did not spell up due to the fact that astatine the past infinitesimal the accused failed to get the army's commandant connected board, Gonet said.

"Frustration overwhelmed the members of the transgression enactment who, however, did not springiness up connected the convulsive seizure of power, not adjacent aft the elected president of the republic was sworn in," Gonet said.

That was a notation to the Jan. 8, 2023, riot erstwhile Bolsonaro’s die-hard supporters stormed and trashed the Supreme Court, statesmanlike palace and Congress successful Brasilia a week aft Lula took office.

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De Moraes connected Wednesday showed the sheet a video clip with scenes from that day. "We had a precise convulsive coup attempt," helium said. "A savage violence, successful full incivility, with the petition for subject involution successful the coup d’état."

Bolsonaro's moving mate during the 2022 predetermination and erstwhile Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto, ex-Justice Minister Anderson Torres and his aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, among others, volition besides basal trial. The tribunal volition determine connected the destiny of the others later.

Bolsonaro, a erstwhile subject serviceman who was known to explicit nostalgia for the country’s 1964-1985 dictatorship, openly defied Brazil’s judicial strategy during his 2019-2022 word successful office.