The process for the attacks on the headquarters of the three powers in Brazil had a new chapter this Saturday with the arrest of Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice of Jair Bolsonaro and accused of being linked to the coup attempt against the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Torres is accused of “alleged omission” by the authorities, since he was the Secretary of Security of the Federal District of Brasilia when thousands of radical Bolsonaristas, without much police resistance, assaulted the headquarters of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidency last Sunday.
The former minister was arrested this Saturday morning by the Federal Police at the Brasilia international airport upon disembarking from Miami, where he was on vacation.
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Arrested in a Military Police battalion, Torres gave an investigation this same Saturday, but the content of his statements will be kept under secrecy, according to the Federal Police.
THE ATTACKS WERE WARNED
The former minister assumed command of the security of the country’s capital on January 2 and five days later, and without explanation, he went on vacation to the United States, so he was not in Brazil when the riots occurred.
However, the possibility of attacks by radicals was warned by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) on January 6, one day before Torres left the country.
Despite the warnings, the security scheme provided did not have enough uniformed personnel to contain the radicals, who collapsed the barriers that prevented access to the sector where the headquarters of the three powers are located, leaving a blanket of destruction in their wake.
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Added to the accusation of possible omission is a controversial document found at his residence during a search ordered by Supreme Court magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, in the same sentence in which he determined his arrest.
This is the draft of a presidential decree that would have allowed the now former president Bolsonaro to intervene in electoral justice with the aim of reversing the result of the October 30 elections, in which he was defeated by Lula.
In messages posted on social networks this week from the United States, Torres repudiated the attacks, alleged that there was a contingency plan in case of violent acts from the marches, and said that the document found at his residence was “leaked out of context, helping to fuel fallacious narratives” against him.
Through the networks, the former minister also said that he would put himself in the hands of the authorities because he is “Surely the truth will prevail.”
WAS THERE COMPLICITY OF THE AUTHORITIES?
Videos released on social networks have also revealed the alleged collusion of uniformed officers in the vandalism, something that even Lula himself also suspects.
“I am convinced that the door of the Planalto Palace was opened for those people to enter because there is no broken door. That is to say that someone facilitated their entry here ”he said this week during a breakfast with the press in Brasilia.
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Planalto’s security depends both on the Presidential Guard, an army battalion, and on agents of Brasilia’s Military Police, some of whom appear in videos fraternizing with the assailants.
In the same tone, Flávio Dino, current Minister of Justice, spoke this Friday, who in a press conference assured that the document found in the Torres house evidences that there was a “planning” of the attacks.
BOLSONARO IN THE SIGHT
For the attempted coup, more than 1,800 people have been arrested and seven investigations have been opened, including some against politicians and businessmen accused of encouraging or financing the protesters.
Among them is former President Bolsonaro, who is in the United States and whose name was included this Friday by the Supreme Court among those investigated as a possible intellectual author.
To do this, he based himself on a video that Bolsonaro shared on his social networks on January 10, two days after the assault on the three powers, in which doubts are sown about the result of the October elections and the legitimacy of the institutions.
The far-right leader deleted that video hours later, when it was already circulating like wildfire among his followers.
Source: EFE
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