“You won’t arrest people here”said the Army commander, General Julio Cesar de Arrudato the Minister of Justice, Flavio Dino, according to two officials present quoted by The Washington Post.
According to the reconstruction of the newspaper, “when senior officials of the Lula administration arrived at the Army headquarters on Sunday night with the objective of guaranteeing the arrest of the insurgents in the camp, they found themselves in front of tanks and three military lines “, quoted the ANSA news agency.
That act of protection, “which according to Lula government officials gave hundreds of supporters time to escape arrestis one of several indications of a troubling pattern that authorities are now investigating as evidence of alleged collusion between the military and police and the thousands of rioters who invaded the institutions.”
The same pattern, according to the newspaper, is also “a change in the security plan in the face of the devastaters gathered outside the federal buildings on Sunday”, in addition to “the inaction and fraternization of the police when they began to enter the buildings, and the presence of a high command of the military police who had told his superiors that he was on vacation”.
The article was based on interviews with more than 20 senior administration and judiciary officials, protest organizers, participants, and includes previously unreported details of the five-hour attack that rocked the South American country.
They arrested a former minister of Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian authorities They arrested a former minister of Jair Bolsonaro and increased the pressure around the former presidentnow under investigation for the violent assault on the headquarters of state powers in Brasilia on January 8.
Anderson Torres, ex-minister of Justice of the extreme right, was arrested by the Federal Police this Saturday in Brasilia, under suspicion of “intentional collusion” with the assailants at the heart of democracy in the capital.
Torres was acting as security secretary of the capital on Sunday, when thousands of people devastated the headquarters of the presidential palace, Congress and the supreme court, a week after the rise to power of the leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He was removed from office accordingly.
“He was arrested upon disembarking at the Brasilia airport and sent to custody, where he will remain at the disposal of justice,” reported the Federal Police, which carried out a hermetic operation.
Source: Ambito
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