The Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered the former president Jair Bolsonaro to testify before the federal police within 10 days about the assault on government buildings by his supporters on January 8, a document seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
Ruling in favor of a request filed by the prosecutors, the judge Alexander de Moraes He said that Bolsonaro’s testimony was “an essential measure for the complete clarification of the facts investigated.”
Supporters of the far-right Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on January 8, protesting his defeat by the leftist president. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in last year’s elections.
Bolsonaro, who spent three months in the United States after his defeat, returned to Brazil in March but faces legal investigations centering on his attacks on Brazil’s voting system and his alleged role in encouraging his supporters to carry out the Riots in Brasilia on January 8.
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