Former Minister of Justice and Public Security Anderson Torres reaffirmed, this Thursday (2), that he planned to “discard”, that is, destroy, the draft of a presidential decree that federal police seized at his home on January 10 . Target of investigation for suspected omission during the attack on the headquarters of the Three Powers, on January 8, Torres gave testimony yesterday at the Federal Police (PF). Torres, who is also a former Secretary of Public Security for the Federal District, said that the draft of a decree with which President Jair Bolsonaro could establish a state of defense in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and, therefore, invalidate the result of the last presidential elections, did not have “legal viability” to prosper. “There is not the slightest possibility that the former minister wrote the draft of the decree, which is unenforceable [impraticável] and did not have the slightest legal viability, with problems ranging from attacks on the vernacular [idioma] even technical errors. In short, it is a shabby, primary document that lacks concreteness,” lawyer Rodrigo Rocca, one of Torres’ defenders, told Agência Brasil. Anderson Torres said he doesn’t know who wrote the document, or how it got into his hands. According to the federal police officer who recorded the statement, Torres said he “believes” that he received the draft in his former office at the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. And that he took it home along with several other documents from “various sources”. The former minister stated that, when analyzing the draft, he considered it “totally disposable”, but that, probably, his employee found it on the table, collected it along with other papers in a folder that he kept on the shelf where the police officers federal officers serving the search and seizure warrant found him. Torres denied that he had presented the document to former president Jair Bolsonaro and said that he learned from the press that other people had received a copy of the text. “The document was not taken to anyone. It was found in the former minister’s house, almost two months after the conclusion of the election. I mean, if this document had the purpose it was intended for, it would no longer be at Anderson Torres’ house”, added today (3) lawyer Rodrigo Rocca. For Rocca, the testimony, which lasted about ten hours, was an opportunity for Anderson Torres to present his version of the facts. “On deposition, he [Torres] managed to order the facts, even explaining some of the points raised by the federal intervenor [Ricardo Cappelli] in his report, whose terms, by the way, are in line with the statements of the former minister.” The lawyer informed Agência Brasil that he intends to ask the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes to revoke Torres’ preventive detention or replace it with another preventive measure. The intention is to present the application next Monday (6) and, for Rocca, it has a great chance of succeeding. “The picture today is very different from when the ex-minister’s preventive detention was decreed. Doctor Anderson Torres came from the United States to render accounts to the Justice, offered to hand over his passport and granted access to the passwords [com quem mantém] the telematic secrecy [de telecomunicações]”, stated Rocca. The lawyer confirmed that, during Thursday’s testimony, Torres informed the delegate that, contrary to what he had said before, he did not forget his cell phone in the United States, but lost it. Career federal delegate Anderson Torres has been in prison since January 14, when he returned from the United States, where he traveled with his family on vacation, two days before the undemocratic act of January 8, which culminated in the attack on the headquarters of the Three Powers (Executive, Legislative and Judiciary) and with the destruction of public facilities and part of the exposed historical and artistic heritage. Torres headed the Ministry of Justice and Public Security until December 31, 2022, when the Bolsonaro government came to an end. At the suggestion of the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, on January 2, he took over the Public Security Secretariat of the Federal District – a position he had already held between 2019 and 2021, during Ibaneis’ first term. Four days later, after taking over as district secretary, and having already replaced the occupants of some of the main positions in local security, he traveled to the United States on vacation. On the 8th, vandals and coup plotters who participated in anti-democratic acts invaded and destroyed the Planalto Palace and the buildings of the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court, highlighting the flaws in the security system set up.
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