Trial of Brazil’s alleged 8 January insurrectionists opens in supreme court

Judge condemns dastardly putschist attack' on Latin America's largest democracy as first four Bolsonaro supporters go on trial

The hate-filled vandals behind the dastardly putschist attack" on Latin America's largest democracy must be brought to justice, a supreme court judge has declared as Brazil held the first trial connected to Brasilia's 8 January insurrection.

Thousands of followers of the ex-president Jair Bolsonaro marauded through Brazil's capital on 8 January this year in what his leftwing successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, called an attempted coup d'etat. Nearly 2,000 militant Bolsonaro supporters were arrested in the days after the presidential palace, supreme court and congress were ransacked by Bolsonarista radicals outraged at his defeat in last October's election.