Supreme Court ministers formed a minimum majority to uphold Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ decision.
There was also a majority in favor of maintaining preventive detention against former DF Security Secretary Anderson Torres and former district military police commander Fabio Augusto Vieira.
For De Moraes, “absolutely nothing justifies the omission and coexistence of the Secretary of Public Safety and the Federal District Governor with criminals who have previously announced that they would commit acts of violence against the established powers.”
DF security forces on Sunday did not hold back radical supporters of defeated President Jair Bolsonaro, who invaded and looted the National Congress, the STF and the Planalto Palace, the seat of the executive branch.
According to the judge, since the preparations were known, the terrorist attacks could only have had the approval of the DF government.
The violent escalation of the actions “with devastation of public property, as amply reported in the national press, circumstances that could only have occurred with the consent and even effective participation of the relevant public security and intelligence agencies,” the judge argued in an earlier ruling.
He also pointed out that the attacks on the Republic’s buildings and institutions were unworthy and would not go unpunished.
He insisted that “the despicable terrorist attacks on democracy and republican institutions be held accountable, as well as the financiers, instigators and past and present complicit and criminal public service agents who continue to unlawfully carry out the practice of anti-democratic acts.” “
He specified that Rocha’s removal is justified by the commission of crimes such as: preparatory acts of terrorism, criminal association, vandalism, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and coup d’etat.
“Brazilian democracy will not be shaken, let alone destroyed, by criminal terrorists,” he assured.
Congress on Tuesday approved the decree of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva authorizing until January 31 the federal intervention in the public security of the DF as a result of the invasions.
Such a measure is provided for in Article 34 of the Federal Constitution in order to “put an end to a serious threat to public order” and “to ensure the free exercise of all powers in the federal units”.
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