The Brazilian Public Ministry asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to investigate three deputies for “inciting anti-democratic acts” after the attack on the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia on Sunday.
In an official statement released on Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office asked the STF to investigate André Fernandes and the indigenous soldier Silvia Waiãpi, deputies from the Liberal Party (PL), the same formation as former president Jair Bolsonaro, and also parliamentarian Clarissa Tércio, from the Progressive Party.
According to the petition, the three deputies are suspected of “inciting acts of violence and vandalism” through “social media posts before and during the invasions,” which could constitute the crime of “public incitement to crime.”
For the Public Ministry, the alleged action of the congressmen was an “attempt to abolish, with violence or serious threat, the democratic rule of law, preventing or restricting the exercise of constitutional powers.”
Last Sunday, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters invaded and vandalized the headquarters of Congress, the Planalto Presidential Palace and the STF, in a failed attempt to overthrow the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In another act, the Public Ministry also asked the STF to investigate the governor of the Federal District of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who was removed from office for 90 days, and his then security secretary, Anderson Torres, former Bolsonaro Justice Minister.
Torres, who was removed from his post by Rocha himself the same day as the attacks, has an arrest warrant against him. The former minister, who is on vacation in the United States, has already said that he will return to the country to turn himself in to the authorities.
Torres was responsible for public security in the Brazilian capital last Sunday, when the anti-democratic acts occurred.
Source: TSF
