Brazil Bolsonaro witnesses before the Supreme Court the alleged coup plan Gear Bolsonaro News

The former president rejects the charges; He and seven prison sentences shared for up to 40 years in this “historic” trial.

The former right -wing Brazilian president, Geor Bolsonaro, who is witnessing for the first time before the country’s Supreme Court, denied his involvement in a pluralistic plot to stay in power and cancel the election result for the year 2022, which he lost before the current left -wing president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva.

Bolsonaro, 70, and seven of his close allies were interrogated by a committee of senior judges on Tuesday as part of a trial over allegations that they had invented a multi -step plan to keep Bolsonaro in his position despite his defeat on Lula.

Polsonaro and his accused are risk to prison sentences for up to 40 years in a trial called “historical”-which is the first ever to an attempt to coup under a democratic government in Brazil.

“This is not the case, your honor,” Bolsonaro answered on Tuesday when Judge Alexander de Mora – an arc political enemy – asked him about “the truth” of the accusations against him.

“There was no talk about a coup.

The accusation paper says that the plot only failed, due to a clear shortage of military support.

Bolsonaro, a former military officer himself. It is known that he expresses nostalgia for the previous military dictatorship in the country, publicly defied the judicial system of Brazil during the 2019-2022 state in his position.

On Monday, the former right man of Polsonaro Mauro Sayed-a co-defendant who turned the state-witness-told the court that “received and read” a draft decree to announce the state of emergency.

Then he “edited” the document, which would have been targeting the way for measures “to restore elections” and also depicted the prison of the top figures, including Moraaes.

CID has also seen that he had received money in a wine cage from his former colleague in Bolsonaro and Defense Minister Walter Braga Nito, who investigators say he was allocated to financing an operation by special forces to kill Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alkain and Morais.

“My conscience is clear”

Regardless of the Criminal Investigation Department, the other accused are four former people and former heads of the Navy and Intelligence Agency in Brazil.

Most of those who have taken the situation so far rejected the bulk of the charges in the shipping paper. The defendants are trying to trial on five charges: attempt on the coup, and participating in an armed criminal organization, who tried to cancel the violent rule of democratic law, severe damage and the deterioration of the included heritage.

The conviction of the coup holds a penalty of up to 12 years. When other charges are associated, the accused can be sentenced to up to 40 years behind bars.

Two former army commanders claimed that Polsonaro hosted a meeting in which he discussed the declaration of a state of emergency as a way to cancel a victory if not for the electoral.

Bolsonaro has He denied all the chargesHe said it is the goal of political persecution.

He was already banned in a separate court ruling from running in the elections until 2030 due to the abuse of power while he was in office and underestimated unimaginable doubts about the electronic voting system in the country. However, he still hopes to run in the 2026 presidential elections.

“They have nothing to condemn me, my conscience,” the former leader told reporters on Monday.

Mir Garnier, who was the commander of the Brazilian navy during the reign of Bolsonaro, denied that the former president discussed the declaration of a state of emergency with military officials.

Polsonaro also denied the naval forces.

The headquarters of the Supreme Court in Brazilia was one of the extreme mob targets of supporters known as “Bolsonaristas” – which Government buildings raided in January 2023 While they urged the army to overthrow Lula, a rebellion attempt that raised the supporters of the President of the United States, Polsonaro, the ally of the United States on January 6, 2021.

Polsonaro was abroad in Florida at the time of this last effort to keep him in power after planning the alleged coup. But his opponents accused him of raising riots.

Judges will hear from 26 defendants at a later time. The court has already heard of dozens of witnesses in hearings It started in mid -May.