Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from World news | The Guardian on (#6SD9F)
Police accuse 37 people of crimes including conspiracy and trying to tear down one of world's largest democracies
The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police of being part of a criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil's democratic system through a rightwing coup d'etat.
Federal police confirmed on Thursday that investigators had concluded their long-running investigation into what they called a coordinated attempt to violently dismantle the constitutional state".
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