2023-09-14 23:23:00
In what represents one of more than 200 trials, the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil sentenced this Thursday 17 years in prison to the first accused for the attack on the headquarters of the three powers in Brasiliawhich occurred on January 8, days after the president’s inauguration Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated in the elections Jair Bolsonaro.
Is about Aecio Lucio Costa Pereiraa 51-year-old Brazilian citizen from São Paulo, who was arrested after causing damage to Congress and after filming himself in the chair of the head of the Senate wearing a T-shirt that had the inscription “Military intervention now“.
State of commotion in Brazil: the details of the coup attempt
Pereira was convicted of the crimes of “aggravated damages, deterioration of public assets, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état and criminal association”, the five charges for which the Prosecutor’s Office accused him.
“The plenary session of the Supreme Federal Court, by majority vote, decided to sentence Aecio Lucio Costa Pereira to 17 years,” said the president of the Court, Rosa Weber at the end of the trial against the followers of former President Bolsonaro who, in addition to the legislative body, also looted the Planalto Palaceseat of the Executive Branch, and the Court of Justice.
Likewise, he reported that the man must pay a individual fine and one group compensation for “collective moral and material damages” of 30 million reais, about six million dollarsalong with the other people who are sentenced during the judicial process.
“It wasn’t a walk in the park.”
The sentence finally chosen by the Brazilian Supreme Court was the most severe proposed among the eleven judges. The magistrate reporting the process, Alexandre de Moraes, who proposed the 17 years in prison, said that the protesters wanted “convince the Army to join this coup d’état“and they were sure they were going to make it.
The official showed a video of Pereira inside the Senate chamber where he celebrated the invasion and encouraged it through his social networks. Only two of the judges The court dismissed the attempted coup charges.
The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
“It really wasn’t a walk in the park. It was a Sunday of devastationthe day of infamy,” said Judge Weber about that January 8 during her intervention in the trial. The invasion and looting of the headquarters of the Presidency, Congress and the court itself occurred a week after Lula’s inauguration. .
Judge Cristiano Zanin, for his part, held that the objective of the protesters was, through the use of violence, “besiege Brasilia and spread throughout the country the practice of criminal acts, attacks against the rule of law”.
More than 200 trials underway
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) of Brazil presented a total of 232 complaints against those allegedly responsible for the most serious crimes, among whom include the first convicted person and three others who will be tried in the coming days. The accused are all men, between 24 and 52 years old.
Bolsonaro, who was recently disabled to participate in the elections for eight years for having “abused power” by misinforming about the electoral system, is investigated for his alleged role as instigator of the facts. The former president, who was in the United States at the time, denied any responsibility.
Prior to January 8, convinced that the former Head of State had been a victim of electoral fraud, thousands of his supporters promoted roadblocks and demonstrations in front of military barracks calling for military intervention.
Members of the police leadership of the Federal Districtregion of Brasilia, were arrested last month, accused of “omission” and attempted coup d’état, after investigations revealed an “ideological alignment and purpose” with those who organized the protests, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
In addition to complaints for the most serious crimes, judicial officials analyze more than a thousand cases that instead of having criminal sentences they will end in fines and social contributions.
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