Former president has denied breaking the law, while attorney general alleges plot included a plan to poison Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Historian Carlos Fico, one of the leading experts on the dictatorship that seized power after Brazil’s 1964 military coup, said it was particularly noteworthy that those charged included three high-ranking military figures: Gen Braga Netto, Gen Heleno and Adm Garnier Santos.
“The most significant aspect is not Bolsonaro’s indictment – he is, after all, an avowed admirer of the military dictatorship and of torture – but rather the indictment of the generals,” said Fico, a history professor at Rio’s federal university. “The indictment of generals through a judicial process led by the federal police, with the endorsement of the country’s attorney general and [that is] set to be judged by the supreme court, is unprecedented in Brazilian history.”