This arrest was carried out within the framework of investigations on the ransacking of institutions in the capital, Brasilia, on January 8. Friday, the judge of the Federal Supreme Court had announced the inclusion of the former head of state of the far right in his investigation.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The former Minister of Justice Bolsonarist Anderson Torres was arrested in Brazil on Saturday January 14, and former President Jair Bolsonaro is himself directly targeted for his possible role in the ransack of federal institutions of the Capital, Brasilia.
m. Torres, who was Secretary of Security by Brasilia at the time of violence on January 8, was arrested upon arrival at Brasilia airport as part of the rowse investigation, local media reported, while ‘He returned from the United States to appear before the courts. Mr. Torres, who claims his innocence, is suspected of collusion with the rioters, accused of having fomented a remake of the assault of the American Capitol of January 6, 2021.
This arrest comes the day after the announcement by the judge of the Federal Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, of inclusion, as requested by the general prosecutor’s office, of the former head of state of the far right in his Survey aimed at discovering the possible instigators of these violence.
“Public incentive for the execution of a crime”
m. Bolsonaro, narrowly beaten by the left candidate Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva in the October presidential election, “made a public incentive to execute a crime” by broadcasting a video on social networks “implicating the Regularity of the presidential election of 2022 “, explained the prosecution in a press release.
m. Bolsonaro, which has been in the United States since the end of December, had also been pointed out on Friday for excessive expenses during its mandate, for example 20,000 euros spent at once in a modest restaurant in northern Brazil or 10,000 euros in a bakery the day after her son’s wedding.
Account reports of the presidential credit card over its four years of mandate (2019-2022) were published on an official website of the Lula government, which began to lift a secret imposed percent years by its predecessor on Thousands of official documents.
“A putschist chain”
Before Mr. Torres returned on Saturday, the current Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, had planned to issue an arrest warrant. It is implicated after the discovery of a three -page document found at home: he provided that the federal government takes control of the Electoral Superior Tribunal (TSE), which watches over the smooth running of the ballot, “to ensure preservation And the restoration of transparency and approve the regularity of the electoral process of the presidential election of 2022 “. A measure considered to be unconstitutional by many lawyers. In practice, the intention would have been to cancel the election of Lula.
The presidential decree – which has never seen the light of day – provided for the creation of an “electoral regulatory commission” to replace the TSE, with a majority of members from the Ministry of Defense (eight on seventeen). The document is not dated, but the name of Mr. Bolsonaro is at the end, on a space provided for his signature.
“While thirty-three million people suffered from hunger, they were preparing a coup,” tweeted the left senator Randolfe Rodrigues, leader of the Lula government in the upper room on Friday. “This shows that what we saw on January 8 was not an isolated act. [The draft decree] is one of the links of a putschist chain,” said Dino on Thursday evening. >
The federal police told AFP that they could not comment on an ongoing investigation. Mr. Torres had declared Thursday evening on twitter This draft was “probably in a pile of documents supposed to be destroyed in due course” and affirmed that its disclosure was out of context. The former minister held the post of head of the Federal District of Brasilia since January 2, but had left on vacation just after.