The arrest of the former public security secretary of the Brazilian federal capital, Anderson Torres, appears as one of the most significant chapters in the attempt to clear the background of voters and organizers of the coup assault against the federal palaces of Brasilia, last Sunday the eighth.
Torres, a former police officer and former justice minister in the Jair Bolsonaro government, would be a key piece of what is considered here a clear conspiracy of the former sovereign against the new national authorities led by Lula da Silva.
The arrest of the former official was ordered by the judge of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, because on that violent day he was in charge of the security of the capital and allegedly organized a sort of protection to facilitate the movement of attackers.
A striking fact is that the squad of specialized soldiers that was to guard the seats of the Executive, the Court and the Parliament was mysteriously reduced that facilitated barbarism.
Lula da Silva himself publicly denounced that the entrance door to the government building had not been damaged, i.e. so Someone opened the rioters from the inside who marched from the field posted in front of the army headquarters to the emptied two ministriesthe most strategic site and subject to greater vigilance in the city.
No one stopped them on that long road. The assault had been coordinated on the networks, but security did not multiply as prevention, quite the opposite.
Moraes also ordered the arrest of the former commander of the capital’s Military Police, Fábio Augusto Vieira, also for proven complicity with the attackers.
The head of both, the governor of Brasilia, Ibanes Rocha, was temporarily fired on suspicion of having also facilitated the movement of the Bolsonarists. The president passively accepted this provision, guaranteeing it their containment plan has been sabotaged, but did not provide any other details.
Judge De Moraes denounced that “the omission and collusion of various authorities in matters of security and intelligence have been demonstrated by the absence of police surveillance necessary, in particular by the Assault Command of the Military Police of the Federal District”.
He added in his letter, among other crimes, “the authorization of more than 100 buses to enter Brasilia freely, without any police surveillance, even though it is known that would practice violent and anti-democratic acts”.
Even the total inertia in closing the criminal camp before the Army Headquarters even when it was evident that the place was infested with terrorists, who were even ordered to be temporarily and preventatively detained”.
Torres, who was on vacation in Orlando, the North American city where Bolsonaro has his temporary residence, was arrested upon arrival at the Juscelino Kubitschek international airport in Brasilia, on board a Gol airline plane that arrived with an hour delay. He was placed in indefinite custody.
The former official is very complicated. A draft decree was found in his house that the former president had to sign, ordering the intervention of the De Moraes court and nullified the election results.
On the 2nd he had taken over the Security Secretariat of the capital and had immediately gone on vacation.
Torres had been nominated Minister by Bolsonaro in March 2021, with the departure of then portfolio holder André Mendonça to the Federal Supreme Court.
Previously, he had Federal Police responsibilities in the area of crackdown on drug trafficking. He also held a post in the legislature as head of security for Deputy Fernando Francischini, Bolsonaro’s initial and fervent ally.
It is also known to have sabotaged a measure that facilitated suffrage for poor residents so that they went to polling stations without paying for the transport ticket.
The Traffic Police, supervised by Torres, has ordered an intense operation of inspection of the buses which stopped for hours on the roadside, especially in the northeast of the country, an area with a PT majority, so that people would not cast their votes. It was a scandal in the second round of the election.
Torres has also worked against electronic voting machines. He was called to testify after the newspaper Folha de São Paulo revealed his attempt to use police specialists to generate alleged counter-polling evidence at Bolsonaro’s request.
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Source: Clarin
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