Jair Bolsonaro: Police indict former president for coup attempt

Former President Bolsonaro says he will mount a legal "fight" against the accusations.

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Bolsonaro's vice-presidential candidate Walter Braga Netto and 35 other people have also been indicted by federal police for attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d'état and criminal organisation.

It comes after a nearly two-year-long investigation into whether Bolsonaro incited a failed coup after claiming the election was fraudulent.

In a post on X, Bolsonaro said he would mount a legal "fight" against the claims, and accused investigators of being "creative" and doing "everything that the law does not say".

In a statement, police said their probe "found the existence of a criminal organisation that acted in a coordinated manner, in 2022, in an attempt to keep the then president of the republic in power".

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