Brazil’s Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, announced on Friday that, at the request of prosecutors, he is including former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in his investigation into possible masterminds of the crime. violence that occurred on January 8 in the capital of Brasilia, reported AFP and Agerpres on Saturday.

Bolsonaro, who lost to left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October’s presidential election, “publicly incited a crime” by posting a video on social media “that calls into question the legitimacy of the 2022 presidential election.” “, the prosecutor’s office explained earlier in a press release.

This video was published two days after thousands of hooligans vandalized the headquarters of the President, Congress and the Supreme Court, and was later deleted, the prosecutor’s office recalled.

The former president “never had any connection or participation in these movements,” his lawyers said in a statement sent to AFP, attributing the violence in Brasilia to “infiltrated” elements.

Jair Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since late December, is already in the spotlight after the official website of the Brazilian government published his credit card reports on Friday. These are sums such as 20,000 euros spent in a modest restaurant in the north of the country or 10,000 euros in a bakery the day after his son’s wedding.