PGR defends the release of 12 prisoners in front of barracks on January 8

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) today (3) asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to release 12 people who were arrested in front of Army barracks in Rio Branco and Belém. In the opinion sent to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, deputy prosecutor Carlos Frederico Santos also asked that the accused respond to the accusations in the first instance of the Federal Justice of their states, and not before the STF. In Santos’ understanding, the accused do not have privileged jurisdiction in the STF or any connection with those investigated who were arrested in front of the Army barracks in Brasília on the day of the anti-democratic acts. To justify the request for release, the sub-prosecutor argued that those investigated are accused of committing the crime of inciting animosity by the Armed Forces against constitutional powers, whose maximum penalty is less than 4 years in prison, with preventive detention not being applicable. For the PGR, the 12 prisoners must comply with various precautionary measures of the prison, such as banning the use of social networks, keeping in touch with other investigated or with people who participated in camps in barracks. According to a survey by Alexandre de Moraes’ office, of the 1,400 prisoners on the day of the attacks, 294 (86 women and 208 men) remain in prison in the Federal District penitentiary system. The others were released because they no longer represented a risk to society and investigations.

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