Brazilian police serve 78 court orders for coup acts

Brasilia, March 17 (RHC)-- Brazil's Federal Police (PF) have served 78 warrants in 9 states and the Federal District (DF) against suspects suspected of participating in the coup acts of January 8 in Brasilia.

The G1 portal states that, in total, there are 46 search and arrest warrants and 32 arrest warrants. The names of the targets were not disclosed.

According to PF information, the orders are being carried out in the territorial divisions of Bahia, DF, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rondônia, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo.

The Federal Supreme Court (STF) reported the day before that it concluded the analysis of the arrests of all suspects arrested in the days following the acts of terrorism in the Esplanade of the Ministries, either in flagrante delicto, or in the previous phases of the operation Lesa Patria.

Rapporteur of the case, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, rejected the requests for release of 86 women and 208 men who had the conducts considered the most serious.

With this, the 294 suspects were kept in custody.  Most of this group will answer for crimes such as serious damages, violent abolition of the rule of law and coup d'état.

With calls for military intervention and rejection of the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, groups of radical followers of the defeated president Jair Bolsonaro staged anti-democratic actions on January 8 in Brasilia.

On that date, marked in black in national history, right-wing extremists violently stormed and ransacked the headquarters of the National Congress, the STF and the Planato Palace, seat of the Executive Power.