Bolsonaro remains silent before investigators charged with a coup attempt in Brazil. The former president confirms his innocence of the charges against him, and says that he fell victim to “merciless persecution” from the government of leftist President Luis Lula da Silva.
Investigators say that preparations were underway to carry out a “military coup with the aim of preventing the legitimately elected president from assuming the reins of power” Police say that Bolsonaro personally drafted a decree in which he would have called for new elections, but eventually withdrew from issuing it.