The Brazilian government tightens the siege of the financiers of terrorist actions against the headquarters of the three powers in Brasília on Sunday, August 8. Flávio Dino, Minister of Justice and Public Security of President Lula da Silva, did not reveal names, but indicated locations and occupations . They come from the south and midwest of the country, the two regions with the most voters for Jair Bolsonaro, and they are almost all landowners, businessmen or CAC (hunters, sport shooters and gun collectors), groups historically close to the former president .
“The first financiers have been identified, those who organized the transport, who rented the buses, these people have all been identified,” said Dino. According to the minister, the next steps in the investigation are compensation, the opening of criminal proceedings and the search for more financiers.
However, some 1,200 people are already being held in a gymnasium in Brasilia, accused of responsibility for the acts, including intruders and members of the radical camp in front of army headquarters.
Through videos, the detainees have complained about the conditions set by the police. A photo of a 77-year-old Bolsonarist who is believed to have died in recent hours has circulated – however, the photo is of an 80-year-old woman who died three months ago in Campinas, according to information from relatives, outraged by the fake news. The police also denied any deaths and even removed the elderly and pregnant women. Another fake news spread in a group of Bolsonaristas claims that the perpetrators of the attacks were leftist infiltrators.
Hamilton Mourão, a former vice president, called the arrest “Marxist-Leninist”. “The arbitrary detention of more than 1,200 people, currently detained in precarious conditions in the facilities of the Federal Police in Brasília, shows that the new government, in keeping with its Marxist-Leninist roots, is operating in an amateurish, inhumane and illegal manner. acts”.
“Brazil and the prisoners expect swift actions from our parliamentarians in office and from the real entities related to human rights,” he continued.
In response, Alexandre de Moraes, a Justice of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), said that “prison is not a summer camp”. “Do not think that these terrorists, who committed riots and crimes until Sunday and now complain because they are in prison, want the prison to become a holiday camp, will weaken the institutions.”
However, the judge ordered the arrest of Anderson Torres, Secretary of Security for the Federal District and former Attorney General of Bolsonaro, who, like the former president, is on vacation in Florida.
new chief of police
Moraes spoke at the inauguration of Andrei Rodrigues as the new General Director of the Federal Police. According to Rodrigues, “police action will always be guided by strict adherence to the law and by the principles of the democratic rule of law”. “Police investigations will be coordinated on the trident of evidence quality, investigative autonomy and accountability, with absolute rigor regarding deviations and officialdom.”
Andrei Rodrigues, a federal police officer for 20 years, was head of the security team for candidate Lula, in the last campaign, and for Dilma Rousseff, in 2010.
Meanwhile, Brazil’s president also met with all 27 governors of Brazil’s states in the Planalto on Monday night — only two were absent, one of them because he was undergoing surgery and the other because he was out of the country on an official trip. yet they were represented by the vices. After the meeting in which the governors underlined their support and solidarity with the presidents of the three powers, Lula said that the financiers of terrorist acts will not have a truce. “We will not give up until we know who was responsible, who funded everything that happened in this country,” Lula said.
“I’m not going to find the perpetrators now. Nobody expected this act of vandalism to happen on Sunday. After all, the Sunday before, we had the biggest democratic party Brasilia has ever known”.
“I think the majority of society, and even the majority of people who voted for Bolsonaro, do not agree with what happened here. Sooner or later we will find out who funded it.”
“And I also think that nothing like this will happen again in the near future. Based on what happened here, we all have a duty to strengthen democracy and it will happen,” he concluded.
Earlier, when he addressed the governors, he had regretted meeting them at a time like this. “Today we’re gathered here, in a different situation than I imagined, because I suggested we get together the 27 governors with the three major projects in each state, to see if we were working together, if we had any money or funds. could find about the land, but God did not want that meeting to take place before this.”
“Bolsonaro in Prison!”
During the night, protesters gathered in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other cities to protest against the attacks and for Brazilian democracy. With cries of “no amnesty and no forgiveness, we want Bolsonaro in jail”, thousands gathered on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo. The action was called by the fronts Povo Sem Medo, Brasil Popular and Coalizão Negra por Direito, but organized supporters of the main clubs in São Paulo – Corinthians, Palmeiras, Santos and São Paulo – also took part in the protest.
Federal Representative Guilherme Boulos (PSOL), Lula’s ally, sent a message to São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), Bolsonaro’s ally, in a speech on stage: “Tarcísio, don’t even cross your mind to call Ibaneis imitate [governador do Distrito Federal] here in São Paulo we will not allow it, if a coup tries to invade the state assembly and the police go slack, we will take it in hand”.
“We have elected President Lula,” continued the left-wing politician, “but we cannot give up the streets of this country, we are going to defeat the coup leaders through justice, through government action, but we are also going to defeat them, not in our place take to the streets. Now it’s time to fight, take to the streets so that we guarantee that there will be no amnesty”.
However, international reactions to Sunday’s events continued. “Israel condemns the violent disturbances and supports Brazil’s democratic institutions and the rule of law,” says a note published by the official profile of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu is considered his ally by Bolsonaro.
Former US President Barack Obama stated that “together we must reject any attempt to overthrow or disrupt the will of the Brazilian people”.
‘Bolsonaro didn’t say anything’
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of Jair Bolsonaro, claims his father did not maneuver the protesters who raided the headquarters of the three powers of the Brazilian Republic on Sunday. According to the politician, “he is practically incommunicable”.
“Bolsonaro is practically incommunicado and has not exchanged messages with anyone about it,” he told the Metrópoles website. “He is in the United States and has not spoken or participated. In fact, this profile of breaking everything is not of the protesters who camped in Brasilia, it is of people from the outside,” he continued.
In the corridors of Brasília and even among members of Bolsonaro’s party, the PL, it is said that acts of vandalism could lead to more drastic action by the judiciary against the former Brazilian president, who faces a request for preventive detention caused by PSOL, a left-wing party, and nine crimes related to the course of the pandemic, reported by the CPI parliamentary inquiry committee, from 2021.
Bolsonaro was hospitalized Monday in Orlando, the Florida city he flew to on the eve of Lula’s inauguration. He has improved and should be sacked in the coming days, according to the Brazilian press. Allies of the former president also say that he must return to the country after the end of this month.
Source: DN
