Brazil tightens net around riot instigators, Bolsonaro in the crosshairs

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 16, 2023 12:03 am

Brasília, Brazil: Brazil's new leftist government tightened the net around suspected instigators of riots that targeted the seats of power, ordering a probe of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro and arresting his justice minister Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

Thousands of Bolsonaro backers broke into the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court buildings in the capital Brasilia last Sunday, demanding the ouster of his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In this file photo taken on Oct. 28, 2022, Brazilian President and reelection candidate for the Liberal Party (PL) Jair Bolsonaro gestures before the start of the television debate at the Globo TV studio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The office of Brazil's prosecutor general (PGR) moved Friday Jan. 13, 2023 to include ex-president Jair Bolsonaro in an investigation of people suspected of instigation and intellectual authorship of the January 8 sacking of government buildings in Brasilia. AFP PHOTO

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