The São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) condemned the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Gilmar Mendes, to pay R$ 50,000 in compensation for moral damages to lawyer Modesto Carvalhosa.
The lawsuit was filed by Carvalhosa due to statements by Gilmar, who, according to the lawyer, uttered offenses in interviews and during sessions of the Supreme Court, such as calling him a false teacher and accusing him of benefiting customers in Lava Jato.
Lawyer Modesto Carvalhosa / Disclosure/Alesp
“The offenses were, among others, calling him a false teacher (when everyone knows that he taught for decades at Largo São Francisco) and accusing him of using the Petrobras agreement in Lava Jato to benefit his clients”, said the Carvalhosa’s lawyer, Martin Della Valle, referring to the creation of a fund with billions of reais from an indemnity imposed on the state-owned company during the Lava Jato operation.
When the judgment was in the first instance, Gilmar Mendes’ defense argued that the statements were made while within the scope of his performance in the STF and, therefore, there can be no direct personal responsibility.
Toffoli archives two investigations by the CPI of Covid against Bolsonaro at the request of the PGR
Two investigations from the Covid CPI that targeted Jair Bolsonaro (PL) were archived by Minister Dias Toffoli, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), after the request of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR).
One accused the former president of “infringing a preventive health measure” for not wearing a mask, and another of “causing an epidemic” together with the then ministers Braga Netto, Eduardo Pazuello and Marcelo Queiroga.
Dias Toffoli is president of the STF / Rosinei Coutinho/SCO/STF
Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Lindôra Araújo, said there were “minimum indications” for opening inquiries. “Without proof that the defendants have personally transmitted the disease, there is no crime”, said the deputy attorney general in the request forwarded to the STF.
Toffoli, in turn, stressed that it is up to the PGR to decide on the opening of an investigation and, therefore, the investigations must be closed. “If, from the narrated facts and their eventual evidence, presented, now, to the authority who is responsible for investigating and representing by opening an inquiry before this Supreme Court, the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic did not visualize the minimum substrate for such measures, it must be accepted its opinion for the archiving”, wrote Dias Toffoli.
Moraes denies appeal and maintains imprisonment of former minister Anderson Torres
Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), denied an appeal filed by the defense of Anderson Torres and maintained the preventive detention of the former Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District.
According to Moraes, the fundamentals that justify preventive detention remain present, as well as the need for diligence.
Torres has been detained since January 14 after the criminal acts of January 8, when Bolsonarists invaded and destroyed the buildings of the Três Poderes, in Brasília. Anderson Torres was included in the investigation into the acts, as he was in charge of the DF Public Security Secretariat on the day, but was traveling in the United States.
Anderson Torres is a federal delegate, in addition to being close to the top of the PF and parliamentarians linked to the so-called “bullet bench” / Marcelo Camargo /Agência Brasil
“The evidence collected so far from the case file indicates that Anderson Gustavo Torres would have failed, at least by omission, to fulfill his duties as Secretary of Public Security for the Federal District,” said Moraes.
The minister’s decision came after deputy prosecutor Carlos Frederico Santos in favor of maintaining pre-trial detention. For Santos, the apprehension of the draft of a coup decree at Torres’ residence was only possible due to the arrest.
“Had the investigated person been on national soil enjoying freedom, possibly this and other pieces of evidence would have been hidden or destroyed, just as happened with his cell phone, left in the United States of America in order to prevent the extraction of data and analysis of the evidence” , said the PGR.
AGU calls for final conviction of 40 coup plotters
The Advocacy General of the Union (AGU) requested the Federal Court of the Federal District to condemn 42 Bolsonaristas for terrorist acts committed against the headquarters of the Three Powers, in Brasília, on January 8.
In practice, the AGU asked for the conversion of the precautionary measure that resulted in the blocking of Bolsonaristas’ assets into a public civil action for the protection of public assets.
In the action, the AGU asks that the prisoners be sentenced “to reimburse R$ 20.7 million to the public coffers” due to the damage caused during the invasion and depredation of the buildings of the Three Powers.
The losses in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate alone total around R$ 7 million / Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil
The defendants “participated in the materialization of the acts of invasion and depredation of federal public buildings, so much so that in the midst of these acts they were arrested in flagrante delicto as responsible for the acts of vandalism in the premises of the buildings of the Three Powers of the Republic and in the face of them was decreed preventive detention”, stated the AGU.
“Therefore, the defendants, of their own free will and consciously, actively participated in unlawful acts which, more than material damage to the federal public property that is the object of this action, resulted in damage to the democratic order itself and to the Brazilian image.”
Patriot expels councilor who committed xenophobia crime
The Patriot party expelled, this Wednesday (2), the councilor of Caxias do Sul (RS) Sandro Fantinel, after the parliamentarian committed the crime of xenophobia against workers who were found in a situation analogous to slavery in Bento Gonçalves, also in Rio Great South.
The acronym said that Fantinel’s statements are disrespectful, unacceptable and attack “the constitutional rights guaranteed to human dignity, equality, decorum, order and work”. For the party, Fantinel behaved “in a vile way towards human beings sadly found in a degrading situation”.
This is a disgrace, an absurdity, a totally racist speech, from a Councilor who should set an example, who should be working for important causes, and who shames the population of the city where he lives with this speech, I hope he is punished, is framed and worth the mouth. pic.twitter.com/bsT3jSsmrY
— Fleet 77🇧🇷💙 (@77_fleet) March 1, 2023
In a speech at the Chamber of Councilors on Tuesday (28), Fantinel said: “Is the boss going to have to pay a maid to clean up for the pretty ones every day too? Is that what’s going to have to happen? them in a five-star hotel (sic) so they don’t have a problem with the Ministry of Labor?”, he questioned.
The councilor even asked the Gauchos not to hire “those people up there” anymore. “The only culture that Bahians have is living on the beach playing drums,” he added.
Editing: Thalita Pires
