Brazil’s Supreme Court decided on Friday to include former President Jair Bolsonaro in an investigation into the Jan. 8 storming of government buildings by rioters in Brasilia.
“Public figures who continue to cowardly conspire against democracy trying to establish a state of exception will be held accountable,” Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who agreed to the request from federal prosecutors to have Bolsonaro be included in the probe, said in a loaded statement.
The Supreme Court had already ordered Bolsonaro’s former justice minister, Anderson Torres, to be arrested for allegedly allowing the protests to take place in Brasilia after he assumed responsibility for Brasilia’s public security….