Brasília, Sept 3, 2025 (AFP) - Bolsonaro lawyers tell Brazil court acquittal 'imperative'

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2025-09-03

The defense team of Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro told the close of his trial for coup plotting on Wednesday that an acquittal was "imperative" to avoid what it presented as an historical injustice. "An acquittal is absolutely imperative so that we don't have our version of the Dreyfus case," lawyer Paulo Cunha Bueno told the Supreme Court, referring to the infamous case of a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894......

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