Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), denied, this Friday (28), two habeas corpus to release the former Minister of Justice and former Secretary of Security of the Federal District (DF) Anderson Torres. He has been preventively detained since January 14th, in a battalion of the Military Police of the Federal District, pursuant to an order by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, responsible for investigating the coup acts of January 8th, when the headquarters of the Three Powers were invaded and depredated. Torres is suspected of having omitted himself in the face of the anti-democratic acts of that day. He was responsible for security in the capital on the day of the attacks, but had taken a vacation, traveling to Florida, in the United States, two days before the vandalism episodes. Torres’ release had already been denied by Moraes last Monday ( 25), but the defense decided to appeal again to the Supreme Court, alleging a risk of suicide by the former minister, who would be expressing “dismay at maintaining his life”. Torres. For contesting a decision by Moraes, the new request for freedom was distributed to another Supreme Minister, falling into the hands of Barroso, who rejected the habeas corpus for procedural reasons, without analyzing the arguments of the defense. In the decision, Barroso highlighted that the jurisprudence is solid in the sense that it is not possible to present habeas corpus against a monocratic decision of any of the Supreme Court ministers. minister. Passwords In parallel, Moraes gave this Friday 48 hours for Torres’ defense to clarify why incorrect passwords were provided to the Federal Police (PF), which wants to access the cloud service used by him. According to information provided by the PF to the Supreme Court, “none of the passwords provided were correct, which made it impossible to extract the data stored in the service”. Torres did not hand over his cell phone to the authorities, as had been determined by Moraes. The former secretary claimed to have lost the device during his stay in Florida. He did not have his cell phone with him when he was arrested shortly after arriving in Brazil. For this reason, investigators are trying to access Torres’ data cloud, where they hope to find files that will help in investigating the alleged participation or omission of the then secretary in the coup acts.
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