Broken windows at the Planalto Palace after the acts of vandalism on January 8.| Photo: Fabio Rodrigues Pozzobom/Agência Brasil

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) denounced, between Tuesday (31/1) and Thursday (2/2), another 152 participants in the acts of the 8th, which brings to 653 the number of people denounced in total.

The accused, who are in units of the Federal District prison system, were detained in the camp in front of the Army Headquarters, in Brasília, and underwent custody hearings. They are accused, according to the PGR, of “criminal association and inciting animosity between the Armed Forces against the Constitutional Powers”, crimes provided for in the Penal Code. In the pieces, there is also a request for the convictions to consider the so-called material competition provided for in article 69 of the same Code, that is, that the crimes be considered autonomously and the penalties added together.

This Saturday (4th), in order to speed up the progress of the processes that may arise from the complaints against those involved in the acts of January 8, the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Carlos Frederico Santos, coordinator of the Strategic Group to Combat Anti-Democratic Acts, asked for the opening of a national consultation so that public prosecutors from all over Brazil can collaborate. Those interested, according to the PGR, will act in support of the group in the procedural instruction of the cases.