Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice during the government of Jair Bolsonaro and later responsible for the security area in Brasilia, is in jail in Brazil. This Saturday, as soon as he got off the plane that brought him back from his vacation from the United States, the Bolsonaro leader was immediately arrested, under charges that point to him as the one who would have “liberated” the area of the capital where the massive demonstrations took place. opponents, who destroyed the headquarters of Parliament and the Executive, plunging the new government of President Lula da Silva into its first major crisis.
Torres, following his work in the cabinet, had been appointed as Secretary of Security of the capital, so that the incidents of the day in which thousands of supporters of the far-right leader devastated the headquarters of public power, with late police intervention, were his responsibility. direct.
After these demonstrations, Torres was removed from office as a result of the assault, and from the United States he had announced through social networks that he was going to return to Brazil to “appear before justice and defend your innocence”.
Torres landed this Saturday back in Brazil, one day following the current Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, said that they would activate international cooperation mechanisms if he did not return voluntarily.. The operation at the Brasilia airport was carried out discreetly, and the Federal Police, in charge of the arrest, kept away from the media.
Last Sunday, thousands of followers of the far-right Bolsonaro invaded the offices of the Presidency, the National Congress and the Supreme Court, in an attack once morest Brazilian democracy. Alexandre de Moraes, a judge of the Brazilian Court, ordered his arrest for the alleged “intentional collusion” with the violent acts of Bolsonaro supporters.
After the violence in Brasilia, what future awaits Bolsonarism?
Moraes himself authorized Friday night, at the request of the Attorney General’s Office, to include Bolsonaro in the investigations that seek to clarify who the instigators and masterminds of the attack were. Bolsonaro insisted that “had no connection” with the violent demonstrations and, through his lawyer, he repeated that “he is innocent of what happened”, although he defended the “right to protest” in a veiled manner.
Torres must now also give explanations in relation to a draft presidential decree, without signature but with the name of Bolsonaro, that he was found at his home, and that he spoke of ordering a state of emergency, ignoring as “fraudulent” the result of the hard-fought elections that Lula ended up winning and returning him to power following his two previous terms.
AFP/HB
You may also like
