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Anderson Torres (left) with former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (June 2022)
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After the storming of government buildings in Brazil, an arrest warrant has been issued for the head of security in the capital Brasília.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Anderson Torres.
Torres was justice minister in the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
He recently assumed the post of head of security for Brasília.
On Sunday, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace and largely devastated the buildings.
The situation was only under control a few hours later.
The judge also issued an arrest warrant against the head of Brazil's military police, Fabio Augusto Vieira.
Both had failed to take appropriate safety precautions, it was said to justify.
Torres was removed from office on Sunday.
He was out of town at the time of the riots and was vacationing in Florida with his family.
He will return to Brazil and face justice, he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Vieira could not be reached for comment.
Right-wing populist Bolsonaro narrowly lost the runoff election at the end of October against left-wing politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
He did not acknowledge his electoral defeat and flew to Florida two days before the end of his term in office.
Lula, who was sworn in on January 1, blames Bolsonaro for the outbreak of violence.
He rejects that.
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