Aecio Lucio Costa Pereira, 51, and Thiago Mathar, 43, found guilty of the five charges against them. Protesters had invaded the presidential palace, the legislature and the Supreme Court.
A week after the inauguration of left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, thousands of people poured into the emblematic Three Powers Square in Brasilia. The attack on Brasilia "is the translation of a drift of Brazil during the last fifteen years," judge says.