Ex-Brazil President Bolsonaro appears before police in riot probe

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has testified to federal police about his conduct around the January 8 attack on government buildings by his supporters in the capital Brasilia following his election loss.
Bolsonaro arrived at the police headquarters in a vehicle with tinted windows on Wednesday morning and did not make a statement to journalists, the AFP news agency reported.
After his testimony, his spokesperson Fabio Wajngarten briefly spoke to reporters, saying that Bolsonaro “repudiated all the unfortunate events that happened in Brasilia”.
The far-right former president is being investigated for his alleged role in the riots, during which his supporters ransacked the buildings of the Supreme Court, Congress and the presidential palace to protest against his narrow loss to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October.
Hundreds of suspected rioters are expected to stand trial.

Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiev reports from Brasilia, Brazil.

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