Brazil’s Supreme Court has released a partial summary of the convictions of those involved in the attempted coup on January 8, 2023.
By Friday (Nov. 8), the court had convicted 265 defendants of the crimes of armed criminal association, qualified damage, deterioration of listed heritage, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, and attempted coup d’état. The sentences range from 15 to 17 years in prison.
A total of 476 non-prosecution deals were signed. They allow defendants who did not directly take part in the rioting at the government headquarters (Congress, the Planalto presidential residence, and the Supreme Court) not to be convicted.
In these cases, as well as confessing to the crimes, they will have to do community service, pay fines ranging from BRL 1 thousand to 5 thousand, comply with a ban on using social networks, and take part in a course on the theme Democracy, the Rule of Law, and Coup d’État.
Remember the episode
On January 8, 2023, a large group of supporters of the former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, attempted a coup by storming key government buildings in Brasília, the nation’s capital. The rioters, many of whom believed Bolsonaro had been unjustly defeated in the 2022 presidential election, attacked the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace, known as the Planalto Palace. This was a direct challenge to the newly inaugurated president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had taken office just a week earlier.
Source: Agência Brasil