Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court, responded to the request from the Attorney General’s Office and included Jair Bolsonaro in the investigation into the coup acts. The request was presented in the investigation into the intellectual authorship of the violent protests last Sunday, 8, when supporters of the former president invaded and destroyed the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia.
Deputy Attorney General Carlos Frederico Santos, appointed by Attorney General Augusto Aras to head the newly created strategic group to combat anti-democratic acts, signed the petition sent to the STF. Aras has been pressured by colleagues in the federal prosecutor’s office to take tougher measures on the former president’s conduct.
The goal, according to Santos, is to investigate “acts committed before and after” Sunday. This Thursday, 12.79 prosecutors and sub-prosecutors sent a document to Aras asking for Bolsonaro to be included in the investigation.
In it, MPF members cited a video posted by the former president on Facebook and deleted hours later, with unfounded suspicions about the fairness of the elections, the performance of the ministers of the STF and the Higher Electoral Tribunal, and the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The post was published on Tuesday 10, two days after the attacks on the Powers.
“Occupying the highest position in the country, on numerous occasions, he (Bolsonaro) has questioned, with no backing really, the health of the elections, which, incidentally, have elected him for decades. He occupies a prominent position in the disinformation of the country echo chamber”, prosecutors say in the memorandum sent to Aras.
According to Santos, “the existence of a probative link between the facts contained in the representation and the object of this investigation, which has a wider scope, cannot be denied”. The survey targets four groups: intellectual instigators and authors, executors, omissive authorities and financiers.
Bolsonaro will be investigated on the front that targets “expositors of coup theories that have promoted the mobilization of the violent mass”. The first measure suggested in the inquiry is for the court to determine the recovery and retention of the video.
Indignation
In the decision, Minister Moraes states that Bolsonaro’s pronouncement, on the social network, “turned out to be yet another occasion in which the then representative positioned himself in a way, in theory, criminal and offensive towards the institutions, in particular of the Federal Supreme Court – accusing its ministers of fraudulent elections to favor a possible candidate – and the Superior Electoral Court – arguing, without any proof, that the result of the elections was fraudulent”.
“Infiltrate”
In a note, Bolsonaro’s lawyer, Frederick Wassef, states that the former president “has always repudiated any illegal and criminal act, and has always expressed himself publicly against such illegal behavior, just as he has always been a defender of the Constitution and of democracy.”
The former president’s lawyer resorts to a catchphrase of the former president, who “always acted within the four lines of the Constitution.” “President Jair Bolsonaro vehemently repudiates the vandalism and looting of public property committed by infiltrators in the demonstration. He has never had any relationship or participation in these spontaneous social movements made by the population,” says Wassef.
This is not the first investigation into acts against democracy against Bolsonaro. He is also under investigation in the investigation into digital militias, which focuses on the actions of groups mobilized online to attack institutions.
The information comes from the newspaper The State of São Paulo.
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