Brazil’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has denounced 139 more people for their participation in the assault on the country’s democratic institutions on January 8, bringing the total number of people denounced to more than 800.
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) informed on Tuesday that it has sent to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) complaints against 137 people who were arrested inside the Planalto Palace – seat of the Brazilian Government -, while two others were arrested in the Three Powers Square while carrying materials to produce homemade explosives.
The defendants are accused of armed criminal association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, qualified damages against national assets, deterioration of catalogued assets, among others, according to a statement from the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
«(Each accused) actively participated and competed with the other agents for the destruction of the furniture there. They all shouted slogans demonstrating their intention to overthrow the legitimately constituted government,» reads the missive sent to the court.
Likewise, the ministerial portfolio indicates that the objective was «to execute a military government, to prevent the exercise of the Constitutional Powers and to depose the legitimately constituted government that had taken office on January 1, 2023».
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has detailed that so far 835 people have been denounced, 645 of them as inciters, since they would not have participated directly in the invasion and vandalism of the properties; while 189 would have been «responsible for direct acts of invasion, vandalism and depredation». In addition, a public official has also been arrested in connection with the events, which took place on Sunday, January 8, barely a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office.
