A vengeful Lula says Bolsonaro prepared a coup and calls for genocide charges against his predecessor and nemesis

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, affirmed this Thursday that his predecessor, former president Jair Bolsonaro prepared the coup d’état of last Jan. 8 in Brasilia and assured that he should be tried for “genocide” against the indigenous people and for his actions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, the deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Romel Guzamana, said earlier through social networks that the indigenous Yanomami ethnic group with signs of malnutrition in Brazil are refugees from hunger in his country who crossed the border to Brazil.

Bolsonaro called the acusation a farce of the left.

Lula maintained that Bolsonaro participated “actively” in the “preparation of the coup” of State with the organization of the assault of his followers to the headquarters of the powers of the Republic in Brasília last Jan. 8.

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The so-called coup plotters had invaded Congress and other buildings on Jan. 8 without weapons or military support. The Lula government is now desperate to manipulate the official narrative into saying it was a coup.

When thousands of left-wing protesters attacked government buildings in Brazil in 2017, nobody talked about a coup then.

In an interview with RedeTV! Channel, the Brazilian president said that his predecessor must be brought before the courts to answer for the crime of “genocide”.

“It is necessary (to sanction Bolsonaro): he must be tried for genocide in the case of the Yanomami Indians, but also COVID-19 because he was a president who rejected science.”

“He opposed the rapid purchase of vaccines. He did not advertise in favor of the vaccine, but on the contrary”, assured the founder of the Workers’ Party.

Lula’s government declared a health emergency in the Yanomami indigenous land in the north of the country due to cases of deaths from malnutrition and malaria among the native peoples, victims of illegal mining, which has contaminated the rivers with mercury, affecting the supply of proteins and the entire food chain provided by the Amazon rainforest.

The president accused the Bolsonaro government of ” abandoning” public policies towards indigenous peoples, allowing “the advance of illegal mining” in the reserves.

Bolsonaro “sends to pollute with mercury, to invade the lands, he says that people can do whatever they want” on indigenous lands, said Lula, according to RedeTV!

In another part of the interview, Lula accused Bolsonaro of “having prepared the coup” of Jan. 8.

“This citizen (referring to Bolsonaro) prepared the coup. I will say it loud and clear: that citizen prepared the coup,” he emphasized and stressed: “I am sure that Bolsonaro actively participated in this.”

The invasion of the Government House, the Congress, and the seat of the Supreme Court is being investigated by the Federal Supreme Court.

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