Brazil's Supreme Court judge decides to include ex-president Jair Bolsonaro in investigation into January 8 sacking of government buildings in capital Brasilia by Bolsonaro supporters
Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters vandalised the Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace last weekend, seeking to provoke chaos and a military coup.
According to the text of his ruling on Friday, Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted the request from the prosecutor-general's office, which cited a video Bolsonaro posted on Facebook two days after the riot. Prosecutors in the recently formed group to combat anti-democratic acts argued earlier on Friday that, although Bolsonaro posted the video after the riot, its content was sufficient to justify investigating his conduct beforehand. Bolsonaro deleted it the morning after he first posted it.
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