The governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, was dismissed this Sunday from his position for 90 days by Judge Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), hours after attacks by ‘bolsonaristas’ on public institutions in Brasilia.
Moraes’s decision responds to a request from the Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU), a public body that represents the Brazilian Federal Government in court, and from the senator and leader of the Brazilian Government in Congress, Randolfe Rodrigues.
In the decision, Moraes assessed that Ibaneis Rocha and Anderson Torres, former Secretary of Security for the Federal District and Minister of Justice until almost the end of the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, acted with negligence and omission.
“The negligence and collusion of the former Minister of Justice and Public Security and until then Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District, Anderson Torres -whose responsibility is being investigated in a separate petition- with any planning that would guarantee security and order in the Federal District , both in terms of public goods -the National Congress, the Presidency of the Republic and the Federal Supreme Court- only was not more outrageous than the intentionally omissive conduct of the Governor of the DF [Distrito Federal]Ibaneis Rocha”, said the judge.
Moraes recalled that the governor, responsible for public security in the city of Brasilia, “gave public statements defending a false ‘free political demonstration in Brasilia’ -despite the fact that all the networks knew that attacks would be carried out against the institutions and its members”.
The judge also accused Ibaneis Rocha of having given “wide access” to the esplanade of the Ministries, ignoring “all the calls by the authorities to carry out a security plan” similar to those implemented in the celebrations of the independence of Brazil. , marked on September 7
The judge also ordered the end, within 24 hours, of the camps of Bolsonaro supporters in front of military barracks in several Brazilian cities and the immediate clearance of all public roads where traffic had been interrupted by ‘Bolsonaristas’ who not accept the result of the presidential elections held in October, which culminated in the election of the current President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Moraes described the invasion and destruction of public institutions on Sunday in Brasilia as “despicable terrorist attacks against democracy and republican institutions” and stated that the participants “will be held accountable, as well as the financiers, instigators and public agents of past and present conspirators. and delinquents, who continue in the illicit conduct of the practice of anti-democratic acts.”
“The illegal and criminal conduct of those investigated cannot be confused with the right of assembly or free expression and has, in effect, a terrorist nature, with the omission, collusion and malicious participation of public authorities (current and past), to propagate non-compliance and the disrespect for the result of the 2022 General Elections, with the consequent rupture of the Democratic Rule of Law and the installation of an exceptional regime,” he added.
Prior to Moraes’ decision, President Lula da Silva had already decreed a federal intervention in the area of public security in the Federal District.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the country’s three powers in Brasilia on Sunday, forcing federal intervention to restore order and drawing condemnation from the international community.
The Military Police managed, however, to regain control of the headquarters of the Supreme Federal Court, of Congress and of the Planalto Palace, as well as to completely evict Praça dos Três Poderes, in the Brazilian capital, in an operation that resulted in at least least 200 arrests
The invasion began after militants from the Brazilian extreme right, supporters of the former president, defeated by Lula da Silva in last October’s elections, called a protest on the Esplanada dos Ministérios, in Brasilia.
Source: TSF
