Brazilian police arrested five people, including military personnel, accused of planning a coup d'état and plot to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his deputy and a top judge shortly before the leftwinger assumed power.
The alleged conspiracy targeted the then president-elect and his running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and was to be carried out on December 15 2022, federal police in the capital Brasília said on Tuesday.
It also involved a plan to kidnap and possibly execute supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes, who had been placed under surveillance by the men, according to a document from the court granting arrest warrants.
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