Argentina orders arrest of Brazilian Bolsonaro supporters over 2023 coup bid

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16 November 2024 at 1:45 am·1-min read

File photo of Brazil's Supreme Court building taken January 9, 2023, a day after Jair Bolsonaro supporters invaded the Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil.

Argentina's courts on Friday ordered the arrest of 61 Brazilian nationals in Argentina facing jail sentences for their involvement in a January 2023 riot which saw supporters of Brazil's former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro storm Brazil's congress in an attempt to overthrow the new left-wing government led by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Argentina's justice system has ordered the arrest of 61 Brazilians in the country who are facing prison sentences at home related to last year's coup attempt in Brasilia, a judicial source told AFP on Friday.

The order, issued by Judge Daniel Rafecas, was requested by Brazil's Supreme Court to round up the Brazilian nationals in Argentina who are subject to an extradition request and have been sentenced to prison terms, the source said.

Brazilian police have arrested hundreds of suspects in the January 2023 attack by thousands of supporters of former far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro on the country's presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court.

Claiming electoral fraud, they demanded the armed forces intervene to depose newly elected left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

"Two people have already been arrested," the judicial source said Friday.

(AFP)

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