Naime Barreto is suspected of willful omission in security planning, the sources added. The uniformed man was the head of the Operations Department of the Brazilian Military Police when the coup was perpetrated.
According to police sources quoted by the local press, the suspect appeared at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 8, in the Planalto after the assault.
His appointment had been decided by the then Secretary of Security of Brasilia, Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro’s former Minister of Justice and now detained on charges of having liberated the area for the destabilizing action to be carried out.
The Federal Police (PF) confirmed in a statement that it had carried out new raids as part of the investigation into the Bolsonaro insurrection on January 8, when a mob invaded and looted Congress, the presidential palace and the Federal Supreme Court (STF). ) in order to create a state of social unrest that would trigger a military coup.
Destabilization
The demonstrators were protesting against Bolsonaro’s defeat by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the October elections, which – like the outgoing president – described as fraudulent, and called for a coup to overthrow Lula da Silva and restore the leader of extreme right. The Police said they have complied with three temporary detention orders, one preventive detention order and six search and seizure orders in the federal district – where Brasilia is located – by order of the Supreme Court.
The PF added that the people targeted by the raids were being investigated for the crimes of “violent abolition of the rule of law, coup d’état, qualified damage, criminal association, incitement, destruction and deterioration of specially protected property.”
More than 2,000 people were arrested after the assault on the headquarters of the powers and the Attorney General of the Republic has filed formal complaints against just over 600, as officially reported.
The crimes are being investigated by the STF and include a lawsuit against former President Bolsonaro, who left Brazil on December 30 to settle in Orlando, United States, with a six-month tourist visa.
The weekend of the assault on the powers, the former minister and then Secretary of Security of Brasilia, Torres was in Orlando with Bolsonaro, after which he returned to Brazil and was arrested by order of Supreme Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
That is why President Lula da Silva intervened in the security of the state government of Brasilia.
“The rule of law must protect itself from its murderers,” Justice Minister Flávio Dino said about yesterday’s operation.
Meanwhile, the military justice prosecutor’s office opened investigations against eight Army officers for their possible participation in crimes related to the events of 8-E. This is so because the far-right militants acted from a camp set up for two months in front of the Army headquarters in the Brazilian capital, ignoring the results of the 2022 election in which Lula da Silva defeated Bolsonaro.
Source: Ambito
