A year after the most serious attack on democracy since the redemocratization of 1985, Brazil is still licking its wounds in a climate of division.
To commemorate the date of those January 8, 2023 attacks on the headquarters of the three powers, in Brasilia, in which a crowd of Jair Bolsonaro supporters, dissatisfied with the electoral defeat two months earlier, destroyed the buildings while calling for a coup. ‘État and military intervention, Lula da Silva, winner and current president, organized a ceremony.
According to Lula, the ceremony serves to remember that exactly one year before, Brazilian democracy survived an attack. For this reason, he invited all state governors to participate but some, those closest to Bolsonaro, declined the invitation, citing vacations, trips and even medical appointments, a symptom that the political division in the country persists a year later.
The event, however, will be attended by 500 guests, including ministers, parliamentarians and members of the Federal Supreme Court, whose headquarters was the most affected. One of the judges, Alexandre de Moraes, responsible for refereeing the 2022 elections, revealed in an interview with the newspaper O Globo that that day there was a plan to arrest and hang him.
On the streets, there are pro-government demonstrations scheduled in the main capitals but no opposition protests are expected, according to the federal public security secretariat.
To date, the Public Ministry has denounced 1,413 people: 1,156 instigators, 248 executors, eight public agents and one financier. The STF has already sentenced 30, based on complaints filed by the Public Ministry, whose sentences range between three and 17 years.
The group, responsible for the crimes of armed criminal association, violent abolition of the democratic State, coup d’état, damage qualified with violence and deterioration of classified assets, was sentenced to pay a collective fine equivalent to six million euros.
Source: TSF
