Leaked Brazil Report Calls For Mass Homicide Raps vs Bolsonaro

A Brazilian congressional panel is set to recommend mass homicide charges against President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leaked government report seen by CNN.

Photo Insert: The more than 600,000 COVID-19 deaths in Brazil are being blamed on President Jair Bolsonaro.

CNN Brasil received draft excerpts of a congressional investigation that accuses Bolsonaro and other government officials of allowing the lethal coronavirus to spread through the population in hopes of achieving herd immunity.

More than 600,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Brazil, which has the second-highest death toll in the world after the US, Rodrigo Pedroso, Samantha Beech and Shasta Darlington reported for CNN.

The excerpts show the probe's report effectively blames the Bolsonaro administration's policies for more than half of those deaths and calls for murder charges against the President.

The government's "reckless" approach to the pandemic exposed Brazilians to a "a concrete risk of mass infection," one excerpt reads. Another highlights an alleged intention to immunize the population through natural contamination.

"With this behavior, the federal government, which had a legal duty to act, agreed with the death of Brazilians," it says.

The draft report also recommends criminal charges against 69 other people, including three of Bolsonaro's sons and numerous current and former government officials. The final, nearly 1,200-page document is expected to be officially discussed in the Brazilian Senate on Wednesday, the Brazilian Senate Pandemic Parliamentary Inquiry (CPI) told CNN.

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