Former President Bolsonaro’s coup trial opens in Brazil | Jair Bolsonaro News

More than 80 witnesses are expected to testify via videoconference over the next two weeks.

The trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to begin, with charges that he plotted a coup d’etat and led a “criminal organisation” to overturn the result of the October 2022 election, in which he was narrowly defeated by current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The country’s Supreme Court is expected to hear testimony from high-ranking military and political figures from…