In a speech at the opening of the Year of the Judiciary, the president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Rosa Weber, highlighted that the January 8 attacks did not shake belief in democracy. She promised punishment to those involved in criminal acts. “Those who conceived it, those who practiced it, those who inspired it and those who financed it will be held accountable with the rigor of the law in the different spheres. Only in this way will the constitutional order be reaffirmed, always in compliance with due legal process, safeguarding, for all those involved, the guarantees of the contradictory and wide range”, he said. The session marks the reopening of the plenary of the Court, recovered after the vandalism practiced at the beginning of January, when chairs, pictures, cabinets and windowpanes were destroyed. Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras; and former President José Sarney. Rosa Weber classified the attacks as “coup-like and ignoble, directed with greater virulence against this Supreme Court”, carried out by an “insane mob, moved by irrationality and hatred “. She added that ′′ possessed by rational, almost pathological hatred “, the vandals showed no appreciation for public property.[Mas] did not destroy the spirit of democracy. They have not been and will never be able to subvert it because the feeling of respect for the democratic order continues and will continue to illuminate the minds and hearts of the judges of this Supreme Court”. “The physical institutions of a court may even be destroyed, but the institution of the Judiciary Power prevails over them – and remains unscathed”, he added. brings scenes of vandals destroying the STF plenary and the cleaning and recovery process carried out later.
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