Brazil’s Federal Police on Tuesday released nearly 600 people — mothers of young children, seniors over 65 and others with illnesses — accused of participating in Sunday’s anti-democratic acts.
All of them had been detained after being evicted from the camp that for more than two months was installed at the gates of the Army headquarters, in Brasilia, from where the acolytes of Jair Bolsonaro demanded during all that time a coup d’état and on Sunday went to the Three Powers Square where they perpetrated the assault on democracy they had been claiming so much.
More than 1,200 people were put on half a hundred buses to leave the camp after the order given by the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, who ordered the provisional imprisonment of all of them.
Now, the Federal Police has released about half of the detainees on humanitarian grounds after having been interrogated. The rest of those who do not fit the age and illness criteria have been taken first to medical facilities and then transferred to prison.
On Monday were finally dismantled the camps that had been set up in several cities across the country by Bolsonaro’s supporters displeased with the victory at the polls of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on October 30.
In addition to those 1,200 people imprisoned after being evicted, another 300 were imprisoned while participating in the anti-democratic acts of Sunday, when thousands of them stormed the Presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court.
The Police reported that at least fifteen crimes related to these events have been identified, including coup d’état, injuries, public disorder, destruction of public property, possession of weapons and robbery.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
