The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) denounced, this Saturday (4), another 152 people for their participation in the coup acts of January 8. So far, 653 coup plotters who were in Praça dos Três Poderes, in Brasília, have been denounced, a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The denunciations signed by the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Carlos Frederico Santos state that the coup leaders were accused of “criminal association” and of “inciting animosity between the Armed Forces against the Constitutional Powers”.
All were detained in the camp in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasília, and remain imprisoned in units of the Federal District prison system.
The complaints by the PGR, made between January 31 and February 2, also ask that “due to the evidenced collective moral damages”, the prisoners pay a minimum compensation.
Of the more than 1,400 arrested for participating in the acts, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), maintains the preventive detention of 942 people. Another 464 scammers were released with preventive measures.
The plenary of the STF should soon decide whether to accept the PGR’s accusations and place the accused on the condition of defendants.
Editing: Raquel Setz
