PGR denounces 54 more suspects of participation in the acts of January 8

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) denounced this Monday (23) another 54 suspects of involvement in the acts of vandalism on January 8. The PGR informed, in a note, that the denounced were detained in the camp in front of the Army barracks, in Brasília. The petitions were forwarded to the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

The group must respond for incitement to crime equivalent to the animosity of the Armed Forces against the Constitutional Powers and criminal association. The Attorney General’s Office requested that the convictions “consider the so-called material competition provided for in article 69 of the same Code, that is, the crimes must be considered autonomously and the penalties added together.” The coordinator of the Strategic Group to Combat Undemocratic Acts, Carlos Frederico Santos, signed the accusations.

In all, the PGR has already filed criminal actions against 98 people. The 54 denounced this Monday “have already passed a custody hearing, when they had their preventive arrests decreed, and are currently in units of the Federal District prison system”, according to the agency. In the complaint, Santos claims that the camp in Brasília functioned as a kind of village, with a place for meals, a market, transportation, medical care, among others.

In the document that accompanies the complaint, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) requests the replacement of preventive detention by precautionary measures, such as maintaining a minimum distance of 500 meters from any military establishment and its surroundings. The request is based on the fact that the maximum penalties established for the two crimes pointed out by the PGR against those accused, if the STF accepts the request, do not exceed 4 years of imprisonment, “a condition established in the Code of Criminal Procedure (article 313 – I ) for the imposition of preventive detention”.

For the MPF, once “the encampment is completely dismantled and the suggested precautions adopted, the accused will not have, alone, the capacity to compromise public order, criminal instruction or even to jeopardize the application of criminal law”.