The Supreme Court of Brazil has determined this Friday that the former president Jair Bolsonaro declare before the Police within a period of 10 days, within the framework of a process that investigates the coup attempt on January 8 of this year. On that date, thousands of far-right activists who support Bolsonaro the three powers of the Nation were assaulted in Brasiliawith the intention of forcing a military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawho had assumed power eight days earlier.

That day, Bolsonaro was in the United States, where he had traveled on December 30, still in his capacity as president, with the intention of not hand over the presidential sash to Lula, whose victory at the polls last October always raised suspicion. The thousands of Bolsonaristas who assaulted the headquarters of the Supreme Court, the Parliament and the Presidency on January 8 had been camped for more than two months at the gates of the Army barracks demanding a coup, in an anti-democratic attitude that the leader of the ultra-right did not condemn and even endorsed it.

for those events 2,151 people were arrested, of which 294 remain in prison, while the rest will respond to the courts in freedom. The Supreme Court has included Bolsonaro among those investigated, in order to determine if, even though he was in the United States that day, from where he returned on March 30, he incited that movement or if he even had any role in planning the attempted coup

He former president is being investigated in a dozen processes that are processed in the ordinary Justice and in four others that are also in the Supreme Court, as well as answers in other cases before the Electoral Justice. One of the latter, referring to his aggressive smear campaigns against the electronic voting system used in Brazil, will be tried in the coming weeks and, if found guilty, the far-right leader may lose all his political rights. for eight years.