Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

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00:00First, we are starting with some breaking news coming out of Brazil.

00:03The majority of Supreme Court's judges have now voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro

00:09of trying to stage a coup after losing the 2022 election to President Lula.

00:15Well, let's cross live to the ground to Rio de Janeiro,

00:18where France 24's correspondent, Tim Vickery, is standing by for us.

00:22Tim, just bring us up to speed with what the judges have decided.

00:25Yes, the fourth judge of the five, Carmen Lucia, is just concluding her votes at the moment.

00:34The score going into yesterday was 2-0 for conviction.

00:38Yesterday, we had a divergent voice from Luis Fux, who spent 13 hours deciding that Bolsonaro should not be convicted.

00:48But Carmen Lucia, we see her there, has emphatically upheld all the charges.

00:53She has voted for Bolsonaro to be convicted on all five charges.

00:58That means that the Supreme Court now has a majority.

01:01There is one judge who will vote after Carmen later on today.

01:06But we now know Jair Bolsonaro is declared guilty on all charges.

01:12Tomorrow, the judges will meet again to decide the penalty, the sentence,

01:18which could be at its maximum, it could be over 40 years.

01:22So this is historic.

01:23Brazil has never done anything like this before, not only to a president, but also to generals.

01:30So this is a historic moment for Brazil.

01:32Jair Bolsonaro and the fellow defendants guilty on all charges.

01:36Tim, thanks so much for bringing us up to speed.

01:39We'll of course be crossing back to Tim Vickery once we get some updates on this developing story.

01:44Bye-bye.

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