Eight STF ministers vote in favor of making 100 defendants accused of acts of 1/8

Ministers Luiz Fux and Rosa Weber, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), voted this Friday (21) in favor of making defendants the first 100 denounced by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) for alleged involvement in the acts of January 8, in Brasilia. They join six other magistrates who formed a majority in the trial.

The virtual plenary session ends next Monday (24) and still awaits the registration of votes by André Mendonça and Nunes Marques. Ministers Luís Roberto Barroso, Dias Toffoli, Edson Fachin, Cármen Lúcia, Gilmar Mendes and the rapporteur Alexandre de Moraes have also voted in favor of the decision, who had the decision followed by the magistrates.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes stated, in the vote, that he was in favor of making defendants those mentioned in the first inquiry (4921) for the crimes of public incitement to the practice of crime and criminal association.

In the second (4922), he cites the crimes of attempting to abolish, with serious threat or violence, the Democratic State of Law; coup d’etat; criminal association; damage qualified by violence and serious threat, with the use of a flammable substance, against the assets of the Union.

Those denounced in this phase were arrested on the same day as the acts and on the following, in the camp set up in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasília, and remain detained in the penitentiary system of the Federal District. In all, the PGR has already presented 1,390 formal accusations in the investigations, 239 of which are related to the core of executors, 1,150 in the core of initiators and one in the core that investigates the alleged omission of public authorities in the episode.

This is the first judgment after the complaints presented to the Court by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and the second wave of defendants, with 200 cited, is expected to begin to be analyzed from next Tuesday (25) also in plenary. virtual.