Media in Brazil announced early Saturday that a former minister in the government of deposed President Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested in connection with the looting of public property.
Sunday thousands “bolsonaristas” stormed the capital’s government offices, smashed windows, destroyed furniture and works of art of great value and spread messages calling for a military takeover.
The actual amount of destruction, which resulted in the detention of more than 2,000 rioters, is still being determined. On Friday, a judge at Brazil’s top court said Bolsonaro will be part of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his firing, which were fueled by frustration over the far-right leader’s loss in the presidential race to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
When Bolsonaro’s former justice minister, Anders Torres, returned to Brasilia from the United States, where he and his former boss had been during the failed coup, he was promptly imprisoned. Being charged on top “omission” in his role as security commander for the capital, he is now wanted on a Supreme Court order for “conspiracy” with the rioters.
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Flavio Dino, who succeeded Torres as Lula’s justice minister, said on Friday that authorities would give Torres until Monday to return to Brazil or face extradition. The new minister also revealed that there is a draft decree with proposals for emergency measures for the aspirant “correction” of the October election, which Lula won by a razor-thin margin, had been discovered in Torres’ residence.
Bolsonaro’s name is at the bottom of the undated and unsigned copy, but Dino claims he has no idea who wrote it. The document, published late Thursday in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, calls for the creation of a “regulatory committee” elections instead of the current one Higher Electoral Court.
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End thoughts
Reports surfaced early Saturday morning in Brazil that a former minister in the cabinet of deposed President Jair Bolsonaro had been arrested on charges of looting state property.
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