Jair Bolsonaro Ordered to Face Trial in Brazil for Attempting a Coup
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, will face trial on charges that he oversaw a vast scheme to cling to power after losing the 2022 elections, including an attempt to overturn the vote and a plot to assassinate the nation’s president-elect, the country’s supreme court decided on Wednesday.
The ruling marks a significant effort to hold Mr. Bolsonaro accountable for accusations that he sought to effectively dismantle Brazil’s democracy by orchestrating a broad plan to stage a coup.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the case, said in explaining his decision that there was no doubt Mr. Bolsonaro “knew, handled and discussed’’ plans for a coup.
Mr. Bolsonaro and seven members of his inner circle, including his running mate and a former spy chief, will be tried on chargesfiled by prosecutors last month of “violent abolition of...
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