AGU sues 27 people who posted on the networks during coup acts

The Attorney General’s Office (AGU) filed a new lawsuit this Friday (28) against another 27 people identified as participating in the invasion and depredation of the headquarters of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Federal Supreme Court, in anti-democratic acts from January 8th. The goal is for them to be forced to bear the damage caused by the destruction, calculated at R$ 26.2 million so far. The new people prosecuted were pointed out in an intelligence report by the Senate Police, “which identified publications on social networks made by the accused themselves on the day of the acts, commemorating in footage the invasion of the National Congress building and even the clash with the legislative police. ”, informed the AGU, in a note. With the new action, the number of individuals prosecuted by the AGU with the objective of compensating the damages caused by the coup acts reached 250. Three companies, a union and an association are also sued. In all, there are seven actions filed in the civil sphere of the Federal Court. The vast majority of targets concern people caught perpetrating acts of invasion and destruction, some of whom were arrested in the act on January 8 itself. Some of these individuals are also being criminally prosecuted at the Federal Supreme Court (STF). Only one of these actions concerns suspects of being the financiers of the acts, through the chartering of buses to transport the vandals. In this process, compensation is also sought for collective pain and suffering in the amount of R$ 100 million. “The acts were carried out to the detriment of the federal buildings that represent the Three Powers of the Republic, a listed heritage of humanity, with the destruction of symbols of inestimable value, leaving society in a state of shock with the acts that took place on the fateful January 8 2023”, argued the AGU. All actions are being processed in the Federal Court of the Federal District, which has already granted the freezing of assets of most of the individuals prosecuted, in order to guarantee payment in case of conviction.

Agência Brasil