Bolsonaro was placed under house 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 felony organisation” that orchestrated the coup try and was its important beneficiary.
The case file additionally focuses on conferences the place draft decrees had been allegedly introduced, together with these involving the doable imprisonment of officers reminiscent of Supreme Courtroom judges.
Nevertheless, the defence has burdened that “there isn’t a option to convict” Bolsonaro primarily based on the proof introduced within the case file, which they argued adequately demonstrated that he ordered the transition of energy to Lula.
His attorneys 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 primarily based.
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”.
