The national inspector of justice, Minister Luís Felipe Salomão, has ordered an investigation to verify whether judges and judiciary employees participated in the attacks of January 8, when the structures of the Planalto Palace, Congress and the Supreme Court were destroyed Federal (STF).
With Salomão’s order, the Department of Internal Affairs initiated a request for measures to investigate the “disciplinary responsibility of public employees of the Judiciary within the scope of the constitutional and regulatory powers applicable to the Department of Internal Affairs”.
“There are many reports on the Internet about the involvement of public officials in acts of a coup nature reported to the world, so it is necessary to investigate whether public officials or members of the judiciary were involved in this uprising against democratic institutions,” reads an excerpt from the dispatch.
OR Estadao found that the investigation includes the judges’ cross-referencing of demonstrations on social media in the run-up to the radicals’ march on Praça dos Três Poderes. Now the objective is to try to identify those who actually participated in the carrying out of radical acts.
The courts of justice, federal regional, electoral and labor courts – including their respective internal bodies – must inform, within 15 days of the publication of the decision, whether there are disciplinary proceedings or preliminary investigations, ongoing or closed, concerning employees of the respective courts as investigated in the documents of January 8th.
Investigations and actions already initiated in the criminal field are under the responsibility of the STF, in the office of Minister Alexandre de Moraes. On Wednesday 13th, the Supreme Court will begin the trial against the first defendants of January 8th.
Salomão argued that the January 8 acts were simply the culmination of a “discursive practice widespread in the mass media, which had as its foundation a deliberate information disorder aimed at generating a crisis of confidence and a deterioration of republican institutions.”
The investigation will focus both on the possible direct participation of magistrates and public employees in acts of vandalism and in ‘subsequent periods’.
The Department of Internal Affairs will preside, in addition to Alexandre de Moraes, the minister Benedito Gonçalves, rapporteur of an appeal at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on the acts of coup, so that they can make information on the summons available to judges and public officials in ongoing investigative proceedings or criminal actions, linked to the depredation of Praça dos Três Poderes.
Source: Terra
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