Brazil’s supreme court finds Jair Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stands behind the entrance gate of his home where he is under house arrest in Brasilia. Picture: AP Photo/Luis Nova
A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy.
Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty.
