The Office of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) filed this Monday before the Federal Court a formal request for final indictment against 59 individuals and legal entities for their participation in the attacks on the Esplanade of the Ministries last January 8 in Brasília.
The AGU has requested that the defendants – among which there are 54 individuals, three companies, an association and a union – compensate the State with 20.7 million reais (3.7 million euros) for the material and moral damages caused that day to the headquarters of the Supreme Court, the Congress and the Presidency.
The companies in question are accused of financing the chartering of the buses in which thousands of people mobilized and camped at the gates of the Army headquarters in Brasilia to demand a military intervention after the victory at the polls of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on October 30.
Thus, the AGU points out that the suspects «were aware» that the organization of those mobilizations could lead to the events as they occurred, a theory that is «reinforced» when «the calls» to participate in them are verified, «when express reference was already made to the designs of non-peaceful acts and the seizure of power».
This would come to demonstrate, the AGU insists, that there was a «previous organization» where the financing of transport was «a primary vector» for what happened to «gain body» and derive as it did.
The accused have already had their bank accounts and assets blocked. The AGU maintains that in a democratic regime, such as the Brazilian one, it is contrary to the customs of democracy to «convene and finance a movement or demonstration with the intention of taking power», according to the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’.
The amount of 20.7 million reais demanded by the AGU is based on the calculations of damages and losses, «already incontrovertible», estimated by the Supreme Court, the Planalto Palace and the Congress, although the AGU does not rule out that as the investigation progresses, «even greater damages to public property» may be revealed.
So far, the AGU has filed four civil lawsuits against those suspected of financing or participating in the January 8 attacks.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
