Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | 5:59 p.m.
Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who served under former President Jair Bolsonaro and was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the attempted coup from of Sunday’s invasion of government buildings, a source told Reuters on Tuesday. In addition, he ordered the arrest of former police chief Fabio Augusto Vieira.
Torres, who was ousted on Sunday, is currently in the United States, raising questions about his next move.
In addition, the Minister of the Court determined the arrest of the former chief of the Brasilia Police, Colonel Fabio Augusto Vieira, who commanded the Brazilian Military Police on Sunday when hundreds of activists stormed the Planalto Palace, seat of the Presidency, and the headquarters of the legislative and judicial powers.
Vieira was removed from office after the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ordered on Sunday the federal intervention of the Security of Brasilia due to the “omission” of the police during the attacks carried out by Bolsonarists who claimed responsibility for a coup.
Meanwhile, Congress approved the federal intervention decreed by Lula da Silva. The head of Congress, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco, led an urgent session today in which the Senate gave partial sanction to Lula’s Provisional Measure, which had already been approved in the House of Representatives on Monday night.
“This anti-democratic minority does not represent the Brazilian people, nor does it represent the will of the people, this coup minority, there is no other name for it, it will not impose its will through barbarism and through criminal acts,” Pacheco said.
Senator Pacheco toured the Legislative Palace for the first time on Tuesday to observe the destruction that occurred last Sunday when some three hundred people were arrested for the riots.
“This extremist minority will be identified one by one, investigated and will be held accountable as well as those who financed and organized” the attacks, the congressman guaranteed. Pacheco said that those “public agents who were willfully omitted” before the acts of violence will be “identified.”
Source: Scope
