Brazil’s Federal Police on Tuesday launched the sixth phase of the operation known as ‘Lesa Pátria’ against those involved in the January 8 attacks on institutions in Brasília with the arrest of five more people.
The police operation follows orders from the Supreme Court, which has issued eight pre-trial detention orders and thirteen arrest warrants in the states of Minas Gerai, Sao Paulo, Paraná, Goiás and Sergipe.
All of them are suspected of crimes such as incitement to crime, association to commit crimes, destruction and deterioration of protected property and above all of coup d’état and violent abolition of the democratic order, reports ‘O Globo’.
This sixth phase of ‘Lesa Pátria’ targets followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro who vandalized the headquarters of the three assaulted powers. The previous stages were directed against the alleged financiers of the attacks and against the police and military officers who participated.
More than 1,400 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the attacks on the headquarters of the Supreme Court, Congress and the Planalto Palace on January 8, of which 942 remain in pre-trial detention, while another twenty have been arrested as part of the ‘Lesa Pátria’ operation.
For its part, the Attorney General’s Office has denounced another 650 people for their alleged participation in these assaults, while investigating the possible participation of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is suspected of having encouraged his supporters after months of attacking the institutions and casting doubt, even before the vote, on the outcome of the elections.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
