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00:00Coups kill. Justice Flavio Dino reminded the Brazilian Supreme Court.
00:08In the end, the vote was unanimous, with all five judges accepting the charges levelled against
00:13former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. They've ordered him to stand trial for an attempted coup
00:19after his 2022 election defeat. A plot with 33 associates that included poisoning his successor,
00:26current President Lula da Silva, and killing Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
00:33There are reasonable indications to accept the indictment from the Attorney General's office,
00:38which identifies Jair Messias Bolsonaro as the leader of the criminal organisation.
00:43In a dossier of nearly 900 pages, investigators also linked Bolsonaro to the January 2023 riot,
00:51when his diehard supporters stormed and trashed the Supreme Court,
00:54Presidential Palace and Congress a week after Lula took office. Bolsonaro could face decades
01:01behind bars if found guilty of the five charges against him in a trial expected later this year.
01:07But the far-right former army captain, who served as president from 2019 to 2022,
01:13has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
01:15It seems to be something personal against me,
01:21and the accusations are very serious and unfounded.
01:27Bolsonaro still insists he will run for president again next year, despite a ruling by the Superior
01:33Electoral Court that barred him from running for public office until 2030, for spreading
01:39misinformation about the country's voting system.