The former president () admitted the possibility of seeking refuge in an embassy in Brazil, if his arrest is ordered after a possible conviction for the 2022 coup plot.
“Embassy, from what I see in the history of the world, anyone who finds themselves persecuted can go there,” he said. “If I owed anything, I would have been in the United States, I wouldn’t have come back.”
In the same interview, he says he spoke about “articles of the Constitution” with the commanders of the Armed Forces to “re-discuss the electoral process” after the 2022 election in which he was defeated by (), but says that the idea was soon ” abandoned.”
Bolsonaro also denies having been aware of the plan that, according to , was designed to arrest or kill Lula, his deputy, and the minister, and then president of the (Superior Electoral Court).
The former president led the coup plot at the end of 2022, and the democratic rupture was not achieved due to “circumstances beyond his control”, said the PF in the final report of the investigation into the attempted coup d’état.
Declared ineligible by the TSE until 2030 for attacks and lies about the electoral system, Bolsonaro had his role detailed by the PF in the conclusions of the inquiry delivered to the STF and made public by Moraes.
According to the PF, “the evidence obtained throughout the investigation unequivocally demonstrates” that Bolsonaro “planned, acted and had direct and effective control over the executional acts carried out by the criminal organization that aimed to carry out a coup d’état and the abolition of the democratic rule of law”.
According to the corporation, the 37 indicted: attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, attempted coup d’état and criminal organization, whose sentences total from 12 to 28 years in prison, disregarding the aggravating factors.
