Brazil, the Supreme Court will try the military for the attempted coup

Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) judge Alexandre de Moraes yesterday launched an investigation into the possible involvement of military police and members of the armed forces in the attempted coup d'état in Brasilia on 8 January.

This was reported by the GZH news portal.

The decision, it is specified, puts an end to the debate on which body had the competence, between the military and the civil justice, to prosecute and try the soldiers involved in the extremist protests in the Plaza of the Three Powers of the Brazilian capital.

And it constitutes the response to a request for authorization presented by the federal police to investigate the "authorship" and "relevance" of "possible crimes committed by members of the armed forces and military police".

Moraes, rapporteur for the investigation into the events of 8 January, also established that the competence rests with the Supreme Court, given that the accusations do not concern "military crimes" but "crimes committed by soldiers".

"The military penal code - he underlined in his sentence - does not protect the person of the soldier, but in general the dignity of the institution of the Armed Forces itself".

"The competence of the TSF to lead the investigations - he finally said - does not distinguish civil or military public officials, both of the armed forces and of the States (military police)".

The investigations opened so far before the Supreme Court on the incidents in Brasilia concern the crimes of threat, persecution, damage, instigation to commit a crime, terrorist acts, arson, armed criminal association, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law and coup d'état.

Local analysts have noted that thanks to this decision

, where they presumably would have had more lenient treatment.

Meanwhile

, former Minister of Justice and former president Jair Bolsonaro's confidant until the end of December,

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At the end of Bolsonaro's mandate, and presumably with his intervention, in January Torres assumed responsibility for the Ministry of Public Security of the federal district of Brasilia, where he allegedly dismantled the security arrangements of the Planalto presidential palace and other sensitive public buildings. facilitating the violent action carried out by Bolsonaro's supporters.

In January, Lula dismissed the army commander, General Julio César de Arruda, for his alleged complicity with thousands of Bolsonarists who camped in front of the army's headquarters before attacking the presidential, parliamentary and supreme court buildings in the square of the three powers in Brasilia.