With the arrest of the second lieutenant of the Rio de Janeiro fire brigade, Roberto Henrique de Souza Júnior, Today, 15 Brazilian law enforcement officials are involved in the January 8 coup acts.
Federal police were fulfilling two arrest warrants and five search and arrest warrants at homes in Río de those suspected of organizing and financing the terrorist actions perpetrated in Brasilia by radical supporters of defeated President Jair Bolsonaro.
Among those arrested is De Souza Júnior at Guarus in North Fluminense. The names of the others arrested were not released.
The suspects are being investigated for criminal association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and incitement by the armed forces against institutional powers. The fire brigade informed the portal G1 that they “closely follow the deployment of the federal police and are still available to the authorities to cooperate in the investigation”.
The newspaper O Globo indicated that active agents and reservists appeared in the relationship, and among the 15 detainees, in addition to the firefighter, nine military police officers, three army soldiers, a naval officer and a former air force corporal, most of them identified on social networks.
In addition to the attempted coup in Brasilia, lThe suspects are also being investigated because of the camps in front of the barracks and the anti-democratic acts after the second round of voting on October 30, during which roads in Rio were blocked.
G1 also notes that the Federal District Corrections Court ordered the transfer of four MPs and ten attorneys involved in acts of terrorism against the headquarters of the three powers (National Congress, Supreme Court and Presidency).
The 14 transferees were among the prisoners in Temporary Detention Facility II in the Papuda Prison Complex in the Federal District Botanical Garden Administrative Region and were taken to the 19th Military Police Battalion in Sao Sebastián, Capital Administrative Region.
Such public security officials have the privilege of a special custodial sentence, as do lawyers.
To date, the judiciary has heard 1,248 extremists detained in Brasilia during detention hearings.
(With information from Prensa Latina)