AME4954. BRASILIA (BRASIL), 08/01/2023.- Policías enfrentan a seguidores del expresidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro que invaden hoy, el Palacio de Planalto, sede del Ejecutivo, y la Corte Suprema, después de haber irrumpido antes en el Congreso Nacional en actos golpistas contra el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, en Brasilia (Brasil). Decenas de agentes subieron la rampa que da acceso a la primera planta del palacio disparando gases lacrimógenos, mientras otro grupo de uniformados rodeaba el edificio. Seguidores del expresidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro invadieron este domingo el Palacio de Planalto, sede del Ejecutivo, y la Corte Suprema, después de haber irrumpido antes en el Congreso Nacional en actos golpistas contra el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. EFE/ Andre Borges
Brazil’s Supreme Court sentences first of pro-Bolsonaro rioters to 17 years in prison
Brasilia, Sept 14 (EFE). – Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison the first of the 1,390 defendants charged in the January 8 uprising, when a mob of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the headquarters of the nation’s three branches of government a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Aécio Pereira, the first defendant to sit in the dock, was found guilty unanimously by the 11 justices on the bench, although there were discrepancies among them over the charges and the sentence.
Pereira, who is 51 years old, was arrested on the day of the riot and cameras showed him wearing a shirt that called for a military coup.
File photo of demonstrators against the election results and the government of newly inaugurated President Lula da Silva invade the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Planalto Palace, seat of the Presidency of the Republic, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 8, 2023. EFE/ Andre Borges
After a trial that began on Wednsday, Pereira was charged with unlawful association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, aggravated damages and destruction of public property.
The two Bolsonaro-appointed justices declined to convict him on all five counts and tried to push for lighter sentences.
File photo of riot police officers entering the Planalto presidential palace, Brazil’s government headquarters, which is taken over by hundreds of radical supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 8, 2023. EFE/ Andre Borges
On January 8, a week after Lula took office for the second time, thousands of extreme right-wing activists invaded the Supreme Court, presidential palace and Congress allegedly trying to restore Bolsonaro to power.
Bolsonaro did not recognize Lula’s victory and tried to sow doubts about the nation’s electronic voting system without any evidence. EFE
File photo of the president of the Superior Electoral Court, Alexandre de Moraes, at the Superior Electoral Court, in Brasilia, Brazil, Dec. 12, 2022. EFE/Andre Borges
