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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Brasília and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

Operation World Cup: the murder plot at the heart of Brazil’s trial of the century

protester poses next to an inflatable doll representing former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in prison uniform
Judge Alexandre de Moraes said Jair Bolsonaro tried to ‘annihilate the essential pillars of the democratic rule-of-law state’. Photograph: Ton Molina/Getty Images

The conspirators used codenames to conceal their identities as they prepared for their mission: to plunge Brazil into chaos by assassinating a celebrity supreme court judge called Alexandre de Moraes.

On an encrypted messaging group, one plotter used the alias Brazil, another Japan and a third Austria.

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