Brazil arrests soldiers suspected of 2022 plot to kill President Lula

The suspects allegedly planned to poison the then-president elect before he could take office.

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Four of those detained on Tuesday are soldiers and one is a police officer, local media reported.

The five were allegedly part of a plot to kill President-elect Lula and his vice-presidential running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, on 15 December 2022, just over two weeks before the presidential inauguration.

Lula was elected in October 2022, narrowly defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who never publicly accepted defeat.

A week after Lula was sworn in, Bolsonaro supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace and vandalised the buildings.

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