Yesterday, Friday, the Brazilian Public Prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to open an investigation against former President Jair Bolsonaro regarding his possible responsibility for his supporters sabotaging a number of power institutions in the storming of government headquarters in Brasilia last week.
And the Public Prosecutor's Office stated in a statement that Bolsonaro - who has been in the United States since the end of last December - should be subject to investigation on suspicion of being one of the "moral instigators" of sabotage operations in national institutions in the country's capital, a week after President Lula da Silva assumed office. office.
On Friday, the Brazilian authorities announced that they were awaiting the return of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres - who is currently in the United States - after discovering a draft decree in his home that would have allowed the cancellation of the presidential elections.
This document, which was revealed by the daily newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo" last Thursday evening, was found during searches conducted by the federal police in the home of former minister Torres, after an arrest warrant was issued against him by a judge of the Supreme Court on suspicion that he was "complicity" in the attack. which Bolsonaro supporters launched against centers of power last Sunday.
"We will wait for his (Torres) to appear until Monday, and if that does not happen, we will start next week the procedures for his extradition request," said Justice Minister Flavio Dino in the new government on Friday.
Last Tuesday, a Supreme Court judge ordered the arrest of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, the chief of the military police in Brasilia.
violation of the constitution
Among the measures contained in the text - which is in 3 pages and the newspaper published its contents on Friday - is that the federal government controls the Supreme Electoral Court, which is charged with supervising the proper conduct of the electoral process, "to ensure the preservation of transparency and the approval of the regularity of the 2022 presidential election process."
Many jurists see this procedure as unconstitutional, and that it practically aims to annul the election result won by Lula da Silva.
According to the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo", which revealed the scandal, this draft may be the first irrefutable evidence that Bolsonaro's circles were preparing a coup in the event of his defeat in the elections.
The presidential decree - which was not ultimately issued - provided for the establishment of an "election organizing committee" to replace the Supreme Electoral Court, headed by a majority of members from the Ministry of Defense.
For his part, Torres said on Twitter that this draft was "most likely among documents that were supposed to be destroyed in due time, and that its content was leaked and taken out of context."
Torres stressed his innocence, vowing to return to Brazil and hand himself over to the authorities, without specifying a date for that.
Torres had moved to the United States when thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the presidential palace and the headquarters of Congress and the Supreme Court in the Brazilian capital last Sunday, vandalizing and looting its contents.
conspirators
President Lula da Silva pointed the finger at what he described as conspirators within the police and the armed forces.
"I am convinced that the doors of the Planalto Palace (presidential) were opened so that people could enter because no door was removed," the Brazilian president said during a breakfast with reporters last Thursday. "This means that someone facilitated their entry here."
The Brazilian president also pointed the finger at what he described as conspiring agents from the police and the armed forces, and said, "The palace is crowded with military personnel loyal to Bolsonaro," stressing that he intends to replace them with civil servants.