Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has refused to testify during his police interrogation as part of the investigation into an alleged coup d’état following the last presidential election. This silence was not just the application of the constitutional duty of silence, “but a strategy based on the fact that the defence did not have access to all the elements with which the president is accused of having committed certain crimes,” said Bolsonaro’s lawyer Paulo Bueno. Bolsonaro had been summoned to testify at the federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia on Thursday. The police h…