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Federal Police: coup narrative incited January 8 attacks
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Federal Police: coup narrative incited January 8 attacks

Brazil's Federal Police concluded that the spread of coup narratives during Jair Bolsonaro's presidency contributed to the January 8, 2023, coup attempts and the recent suicide bombing at the Supreme Court.The conclusion is outlined in the report in which the Federal Police indicted Bolsonaro and 36 others on charges of coup d'état and the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. The report's secrecy was lifted on Tuesday (Nov. 26) by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur of the coup investigation. Suicide bombing at the Supreme Court - Fabio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/Agência BrasilIn the investigators' opinion, the “rapid and repetitive” dissemination of coup narratives fueled the desire of extremist groups to carry out the coup plann...
Federal Police: Bolsonaro left Brazil to avoid potential arrest
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Federal Police: Bolsonaro left Brazil to avoid potential arrest

The Federal Police concluded that former President Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil in late 2022 to avoid potential arrest and to monitor the outcome of the January 8, 2023, coup attempts from abroad.In the final days of his mandate in December 2022, Bolsonaro traveled to the United States, returning only in March 2023.The details are outlined in a Federal Police report indicting Bolsonaro and 36 others on charges of attempting a coup d'état and the violent abolition of democratic rule of law. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur for the coup investigation, lifted the document's secrecy on Tuesday (Nov. 26).Investigators revealed in the report that an escape plan, devised in 2021, outlined steps for the former president to leave Brazil “if his attack on the judiciary a...
Police: Arrested colonel used an engineer’s details to plot coup
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Police: Arrested colonel used an engineer’s details to plot coup

One of the Army officers targeted by operation Contragolpe (“Counter-Coup”), launched by the Federal Police on Tuesday (Nov. 19), used documents from a person with whom he had no connections, in order to acquire the cell phone line he used to contact other individuals accused of planning a coup d’état in 2022.According to the Federal Police, Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Martins de Oliveira “used third-party data to activate the telephone line used in the operation.” In the investigators’ view, the fraud is a known military technique aimed at making it difficult to identify the phone’s real user.Based on information extracted from the cell phone seized from Oliveira in February of this year under operation Tempus Veritatis, the federal investigators were able to find evidence that, at the ...