Bolsonaro was positioned underneath home arrest in Brasilia this month for violating a ban on utilizing social media to plead his case to the general public.
The prosecutor’s workplace maintains that Bolsonaro led an “armed legal organisation” that orchestrated the coup try and was its foremost beneficiary.
The case file additionally focuses on conferences the place draft decrees have been allegedly introduced, together with these involving the potential imprisonment of officers corresponding to Supreme Courtroom judges.
Nonetheless, the defence has careworn that “there is no such thing as a strategy to convict” Bolsonaro based mostly on the proof introduced within the case file, which they argued adequately demonstrated that he ordered the transition of energy to Lula.
His legal professionals have questioned the validity of the plea discount handed to Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro’s former aide, on whose testimony most of the accusations are based mostly.
Bolsonaro’s authorized wranglings are on the centre of fizzing diplomatic tensions between Brazil and the USA.
US President Donald Trump has known as the trial a “witch hunt” and the US Treasury Division has sanctioned Supreme Courtroom Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who’s overseeing Bolsonaro’s trial, in response.
Trump has additionally signed an government order slapping 50 per cent tariffs on many Brazilian imports, citing Bolsonaro’s “politically motivated persecution”.
