A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots has accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind.
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. on Tuesday accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection's mastermind and recommended he be criminally charged with attempting to stage a coup.
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 the hack.
Aside from Bolsonaro, Gama’s list of proposed indictments also targets dozens of others. They include Gen. Braga Netto, who served as Bolsonaro’s Defense Minister and then was his running mate. Also on the list are Anderson Torres, ex-Justice minister and secretary of public security in Brasilia; former institutional security minister Gen. Augusto Heleno; former Chief of Staff Gen. Luiz Eduardo Ramos; the head of Brazil’s Defense, Navy and Armed forces.
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