Bolsonaro aide sought legal backing for Brazil coup -police

 (Reuters) – An aide of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sought legal support to back up a military intervention to prevent President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva coming into government after last year’s elections, a police report showed today.

According to the report, a partial analysis of data stored on Mauro Cesar Barbosa Cid’s phone showed he had “gathered documents with the objective of obtaining ‘legal and juridical’ support for the execution of a coup d’état.”