• Far-right fanatic given 17 years for role in Brazil coup attempt

    Far-right fanatic given 17 years for role in Brazil coup attempt
    Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is first rioter to face trial for assault on Latin America’s largest democracyBrazil’s supreme court has sentenced a far-right fanatic to 17 years in prison for his role in the failed attempt to topple the country’s leftwing government on 8 January this year.Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, a 51-year-old sanitation worker from São Paulo, is the first rioter to face trial for January’s dramatic assault on Latin Am

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