Barroso: The attack reinforces the need to hold accountable all those who attack democracy

Barroso: The attack reinforces the need to hold accountable all those who attack democracy

The president of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, stated on Thursday the 14th that the attack which took place on Wednesday the 13th in Praça dos Três Poderes “reinforces the need to hold accountable all those who attack democracy”. In the minister’s assessment, yesterday’s episode “adds to what has already happened in the country in recent years.

Barroso spoke this afternoon at the opening of the plenary session, the first after a man threw explosives at the Supreme Court and in the car park of the Chamber last night. He died in the explosions. “I open this session with an institutional speech that I would much prefer not to have to make,” the minister said. “And while we are still in the midst of events and investigations, we need – as a country and as a society – to reflect deeply on what is happening among us.”

“Where have we lost the light of our loving, joyful and brotherly soul in the darkness of hatred, aggression and violence? Are we importing spiritually defective goods from other countries that are at odds with each other in history,” he asked.

The judge cited the artefacts found by the Federal Police (PF) in the house rented by the man in Ceilândia (DF) and stated that this fact “demonstrates the level of dangerousness of the people we are dealing with”.

‘They are not only deniers in the field of healthcare, but of the rule of law’

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who will be the rapporteur at the inquiry into yesterday’s attack on the Federal Supreme Court (STF), said that people who carry out such acts are “deniers of the rule of law” and that “they will be detained responsible”. He lamented what he calls the “mediocrity” of those who trivialize “a very serious terrorist act” and says that the explosion was “a simple suicide”.

“Our judicial police prevented him from entering here to explode, and when he was about to be arrested he blew himself up. This mediocrity aims to normalize the continuous attack on institutions. These people are not just health deniers , but in the rule of law and they must be held accountable, they will be held accountable,” he stressed.

“Across the world, anyone who wears devices around their waist to blow people up is considered a terrorist,” the minister added.

Source: Terra

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