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Four elite Brazil officers arrested over alleged 2022 Lula murder plot

By AFP
November 20, 2024
Brazilian army soldiers stand guard on Botafogo beach with the Sugar Loaf mountain in the background during the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. — AFP/File
Brazilian army soldiers stand guard on Botafogo beach with the Sugar Loaf mountain in the background during the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. — AFP/File

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian police arrested four senior army officers on Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a 2022 “coup.”

The four “were arrested in Rio, where they were participating in the security operation for the G20 leaders´ meeting,” a federal police source told AFP, adding that a police officer was also taken into custody.

The army, in a statement, denied that the arrested officers were part of the G20 security deployment and a statement by Brazil´s federal police made no link to the ongoing summit.