Brazil’s National Council of Justice (CNJ) has started this Tuesday the investigation of about twenty judges for giving space in their social networks for alleged attacks to the electoral system, dissemination of false news, offenses to candidates and even support to the attacks of January 8 in Brasilia.
Part of those investigated have already received previous sanctions, including the blocking of their profiles on social networks for what they consider «conduct incompatible» with the function of a magistrate, reports the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
Among those singled out is the magistrate of the Court of Justice of Minas Gerais Ludmila Lins Grilo, investigated since September 2022, when she used her social networks to question in a derogatory manner some judicial decisions made by her colleagues of the Supreme Court and the Court of Electoral Justice.
On her Twitter account, Judge Grilo posted a photo montage in which Supreme Court justices Luís Roberto Barroso and Alexandre de Moraes could be seen under the caption ‘The general persecutors of the Republic of Brazil’.
At the same time, the «apparent attempts to help» the pro-Bolsonar blogger Allan dos Santos, a target of the authorities for allegedly spreading false news and attacks on the Supreme Court, as well as publications in which he encouraged the population not to follow the mandate of the masks during the health crisis, are also being investigated.
Other members of the Minas Gerais judiciary, such as Fabrício Simão da Cunha Araújo, are also under investigation for raising suspicions about the reliability of the electoral system, one of the mantras eternally repeated by former president Jair Bolsonaro and his ilk even once elected in 2018.
The inquiries also focus on the alleged support that some of these judges have shown to those who participated last January 8 in the attacks on the headquarters of the three branches of government in Brazil. This is the case of the judge of the Federal Regional Court of the First Region Maria do Carmo Cardoso, known for her good relations with the Bolsonaro family.
However, not all those investigated have in common their alleged support for Bolsonaro, some have shown a prolific presence in networks supporting the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as the judge of the Amazonas Court of Justice, Rosália Guimarães Sarmento, who in more than 70 publications, according to the CNJ, would have requested the vote for the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT).
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
