A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots has accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind. It also recommends that he be criminally charged with attempting to stage a coup. The report released Tuesday by Sen.
Senator Eliziane Gama, top right, reads her report and recommendation during a meeting by the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee that is investigating the Jan. 8 uprising in Brazil’s capital, at the Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Senator Eliziane Gama reads her report and recommendation to the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee that is investigating the Jan. 8 uprising in Brazil’s capital, at the Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Many observers at the time speculated that the riot was a coordinated effort to oust Lula from office, and could not have occurred without the complicity of some of the military and police. Gama’s report jibes with those claims, and goes a step further in naming Bolsonaro as the ringleader. In one of the inquiry’s most-watched hearings, a Brazilian hacker claimed that Bolsonaro, then still in power, had asked him to infiltrate the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the Oct. 30, 2022 presidential election. Bolsonaro acknowledged he and the hacker spoke, but denies the allegation that he requested a the hack.They include Gen. Braga Netto, who served as Bolsonaro’s Defense Minister and then was his running mate.
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