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Brazil’s Supreme Court to conclude trial of defendants accused of coup denouncements

Brazil's Supreme Court to conclude trial of defendants accused of coup denouncements
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May 15 |

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has until today to judge 250 new people denounced for the coup acts perpetrated on January 8 in this capital.

With the favorable vote of Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court began the trial of the fourth block of radical supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, charged for the terrorist actions, when, in an attempted coup d’état, the headquarters of the National Congress, the STF and the Planalto Palace, seat of the Executive Branch, were ransacked.

The tendency is that the Court follows the result of the previous hearings and convicts 800 defendants.

So far, 500 bolsonaristas (followers of the ex-military) have been charged by the STF for the depredation of public buildings in the Three Powers Square in Brasília.

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The first list, with 100 names turned into convicts, was judged by the Supreme Court on April 24. The second, with 200, on May 2, and the third, with 250, on May 7.

A fourth list, still on trial, with 250 subjects, must be finalized this Monday by the virtual plenary of the superior court.

The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (PGR) filed complaints against 1,390 people involved in the investigations for the anti-democratic acts, being 239 in the core of the executors, 1,150 in the core of the inciters and one person is being investigated for possible omission of public agents.

A first wave of 39 accused by the PGR was presented to the STF on January 16.

The progress of the investigations reaches Bolsonaro’s close circle and advisors, identified and arrested, such as Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice and former Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District, lieutenant colonel Mauro Cid, the former governor’s aide-de-camp, and former Army major Ailton Barros. With the above, for the Workers’ Party the architecture of the coup attempt, after the defeat of the ultra-right politician at the polls against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is revealed and the siege closes against the former president, who fled to the United States last December 30, still in office.

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