Former Justice Minister of Jair Bolsonaro’s government and former Federal District (DF) Security Minister Anderson Torres was arrested this Saturday for supporting the invasion and acts of vandalism at the headquarters of three powers in Brazil.
Torres was arrested while disembarking at Brasilia International Airport and taken to a detention center where he will be available for justice, the Federal Police (PF) said in a statement.
At the request of the Attorney General and the PF, Judge Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Court of Justice (STF) ruled on Tuesday Torres Prison, which remained in the United States.
The governor of the DF, Ibaneis Rocha, had sacked Torres because of the attacks and devastation committed by radical Bolsonaro supporters on January 8 in the National Congress, in the Federal Court of Justice and in the Planalto Palace, the seat of the executive branch.
De Moraes ordered the day before Investigating the behavior of Rocha and DF security commanders during the coup actions.
The decision, taken through the omission or negligence of these authorities, corresponds to a request from the Attorney General’s Office, which will be in charge of the investigation. Initial investigations are against the following people: Rocha, Torres, Fernando de Sousa Oliveira, former Acting Secretary of Public Security of the DF, and Fábio Augusto Vieira, former Commander of the DF Military Police.
This was also announced by the Federal Ministry for Public Relations on that day called on the STF to include Bolsonaro in the investigation into masterminds and instigators of acts of terrorism in Brasilia.
It is now up to the President of the Supreme Court, Minister Rosa Weber, to review the request and decide whether to open the inquiry or to refer the request to another Minister of Justice.
During the week, at least 79 prosecutors and deputy attorneys submitted a criminal complaint to Attorney General Augusto Aras against the former army captain for the so-called crime of incitement, which is established when someone is publicly encouraged and encouraged to commit an offence.
The document calls for the former paratrooper to be investigated in the fake news investigation (fake news), anti-democracy files and digital militias, cases under STF supervision.
According to the content, there is a release from Bolsonaro between January 10th and 11th, in which questions the outcome of October’s electoral fairs won by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In the contents of the Public Prosecutor’s Office this Friday, signed by the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Carlos Federico Santos, it is recalled that the audiovisual image published on the social network of the ultra-conservative politician took place a few days after the greatest episode of devastation, the Brasilia has experienced in its more than 60-year foundation.
(With information from Prensa Latina)