PGR denounces and asks for the arrest of the PMDF commander and 6 other top officials for 8/1

Brasilia DF) – The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) denounced and asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for preventive detention, this Thursday (16), of the commander-general of the Military Police of the Federal District (PMDF), Colonel Klepter Rosa Gonçalves, former commander of the corporation, Colonel Fábio Augusto Vieira, and five other officers who were part of the PMDF leadership during the anti-democratic acts of January 8.

Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Carlos Frederico Santos accuses the officers of omission. In the understanding of the PGR, the seven police officers who were part of the PMDF leadership could have acted to prevent the invasion of the headquarters of the Three Powers.

The rapporteur for the investigation, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, will decide whether or not to accept the complaint. If Moraes receives the complaint from the PGR, the police officers will become defendants for alleged omission and may be liable for the crimes of violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, qualified damage, deterioration of listed property and violation of the duties imposed on them by the law.

The defendants are:

• Colonel Fábio Augusto Vieira: he was general commander of the PMDF on January 8;
• Colonel Klepter Rosa Gonçalves: he was deputy commander of the PMDF on January 8th and was appointed to the position of general commander on February 15th;
• Colonel Jorge Eduardo Naime Barreto: was Commander of the Department of Operations on January 8, but took leave of office on January 3;
• Colonel Paulo José Ferreira de Sousa Bezerra: was in charge of the Operations Department in Naime’s place on January 8;
• Colonel Marcelo Casimiro Vasconcelos Rodrigues: was head of the PMDF’s 1st Regional Policing Command on January 8;
• Major Flávio Silvestre de Alencar: served on January 8;
• Lieutenant Rafael Pereira Martins: served on January 8.

*With information from Metrópoles

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