2023-05-06 01:41:20
The Supreme Federal Court (STF), the highest court of Brazil, This Friday, it granted provisional freedom for forty people of the 293 who were still detained and charged for the coup acts of January 8.
The decision of magistrate Alexandre de Moraes benefited 26 men and fourteen women, who will continue to answer before the Justice, complying with precautionary measures such as the use of electronic monitoring anklets and without being able to leave the Federal District of Brasilia.
Another 253 people, 67 women and 186 men, all of whom have already been charged by the Supreme Court, remain in custody in the Brazilian capital.
All the defendants, of whom 200 were declared inmates this week, answer for the crimes of armed criminal association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, qualified damages and destruction of historical public heritage.
On January 8, radical supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and looted the headquarters of the three powers in the capital Brasilia in an attempted coup once morest the government of the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Due to these events, 2,151 people were arrested, of which some 300 remain in prison, while the rest will answer before the courts in freedom.
At the end of April, the highest court had already approved the criminal charges of the first 100 accused of having committed the attacks and this week of the other 200.
The Supreme Court has included Bolsonaro among those investigated in order to determine if, even though he was in the United States that day, from where he returned on March 30, incited that movement or if he had any role in planning the coup attempt.
Next week, as the STF also announced this Friday, the highest court will begin the virtual trial of 250 complaints for anti-democratic acts, adding a total of 800, with which the number of defendants may increase from the current 300.
Similarly, Judge De Moraes, instructor of the case and also president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), denied the request of the defense of the former Minister of Justice and former Secretary of Security of the Federal District Anderson Torres.
The defense of Torres, who is imprisoned in the same process of anti-democratic acts accused of negligence when that day he was the head of Public Security in the Brazilian capital, requested transfer to a clinic for medical reasons, which was denied by the court.
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