Supreme Court of Brazil gives the police 10 days to report on attacks on the headquarters of the three powers | International

Justice of Brazil gave the federal police a period of 10 days to report on the attacks by Bolsonaro groups on the headquarters of the three powers of the State, where it also indicates whether there were uniformed officers who committed some type of offense or crime.

The Supreme Court of Brazil gave a period of ten days for the Federal Police (PF) to present a partial report on the ongoing investigation of the coup acts perpetrated on January 8 against the headquarters of the three powers.

In a letter addressed to the new director general of the PF, Andrei Passos, known this Tuesday, the investigating magistrate of the case, Alexandre de Moraes, requested the presentation of “evidence collected”.

In the letter, The magistrate indicated that these tests can “identify” the public agents who could “incur crimes” during the collection of the same.

On January 8, thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who do not accept the defeat at the polls on October 30 in the second round of elections, invaded and looted Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Planalto presidential palace.

The radical Bolsonaristas had been camped out at the gates of the Army barracks for more than two months, asking for a military intervention. to overthrow the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who obtained 50.9% of the valid votes compared to 49.1% for Bolsonaro.

More than 1,800 people were arrested for the anti-democratic acts, of which some 600 were released because they were elderly, people with health problems and mothers accompanied by minor children, but they can be called to answer for the process.

De Moraes thus responded to a request from the Attorney General’s Office that asked to investigate various public agents.

Among those investigated are the governor of the Federal District of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who was separated from office for ninety days, and his then Secretary of Security, Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro’s last Justice Minister.

De Moraes ordered the provisional dismissal of Rocha and the prison of Torres, who was in the United States and returned to the country on Saturday to turn himself in before the authorities.

The former president, who is in the United States, was also included in the investigations of the process for his alleged participation as the mastermind of the attempted coup.

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