STF starts judging 4th block of over 250 denounced by the PGR for acts of 8/1

The ministers of the Federal Supreme Court began to judge, in the early hours of this Tuesday (9), the fourth block of over 250 denounced by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) for alleged participation in the acts of January 8, which led to the invasion and depredation of the headquarters of the Three Powers, in Brasília.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who is also the rapporteur for the cases, opened the trial in the virtual plenary by voting in favor of making them defendants in the inquiries that investigate the alleged instigators of the acts (4921) and the executors (4922).

As in the votes of the three previous blocks denounced by the PGR, Moraes states that the 250 cited acted “in a concurrence of people, united by the subjective bond to carry out the common work”.

“There is, therefore, as well supported by the PGR, the occurrence of the so-called multitudinous crimes, that is, those committed by a large number of people, where the intersubjective bond is significantly amplified, since one agent exerts influence over the other, to the point of motivate actions by imitation or suggestion, which is sufficient for the existence of the subjective bond, even if they do not know each other”, he wrote in the vote.

Moraes explained that this stage of the process is restricted to the initiation of criminal proceedings “about the existence of a minimum evidentiary support that evidences the materiality of the crime and the presence of reasonable evidence of authorship, not being present the hypotheses of rejection or summary acquittal”.

And he again cited in the vote the investigation of agents with privileged jurisdiction who would also be involved in the acts, such as federal deputies Clarissa Tércio (PP-ES), André Fernandes (PL-CE), Sílvia Waiãpi (PL-AP), Coronel Fernanda (PL-MT) and Cabo Gilberto Silva (PL-PB).

The reporting minister of the investigations mentioned, in one of them, that those denounced for incitement to acts would have been associated with the crimes “through a stable and permanent structure set up in front of the Headquarters of the Brazilian Army based in the country’s capital, with the criminal desires of the other co-authors, in order to abruptly change the current regime and the rule of law, to encourage ‘the Armed Forces to take power’ and the population, to subvert the political and social order, also generating animosities between the Armed Forces and republican institutions”.

As a result, those cited in inquiry 4921 become defendants for the crimes of incitement to crime and criminal association, while those covered by 4922 were charged with the crimes of criminal association, violent abolition of the Democratic State of Law, coup d’état, damage and damage qualified with violence to the person or serious threat and use of flammable substance against the property of the Union, in addition to destroying, rendering useless or deteriorating property specially protected by law.

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 part of them are still detained in the penitentiary system of the Federal District.

The trial of this fourth block of people denounced by the PGR will run until May 15. So far, the STF has already accused 550 people of alleged participation in the January 8 acts.

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.