Brazil's former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Brazils prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge.
Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain in power. The alleged plot, he wrote, included a plan to poison Lula and shoot dead Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a foe of the former president.
The members of the criminal organization structured a plan at the presidential palace to attack institutions, aiming to bring down the system of the powers and the democratic order, which received the sinister name of Green and Yellow Dagger, Gonet wrote in a 272-page indictment. The plan was conceived and taken to the knowledge of the president, and he agreed to it.
Bolsonaro is often seen in Brazils yellow-and-green national soccer jersey and the colors have become associated with his political movement.
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