MADRID 9 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
In the last two years, the Supreme Court of Brazil has sentenced 371 people, including 61 fugitives with extradition requests, for their participation in the coup attack on the Plaza de los Tres Poderes in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. of which its second anniversary was celebrated this Wednesday.
According to the information released by the organization and collected by Agencia Brasil, 225 of the 371 people convicted have received prison sentences ranging between three and 17 years for serious crimes such as attacks against the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, criminal association and damage to public property.
The remaining 146, having committed less serious crimes, have been sentenced with alternative penalties such as wearing electronic ankle bracelets, paying a fine, providing community services, taking a course on democracy and not using social networks. Another 527 people are complying with similar measures as part of agreements with the Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office.
The Supreme Court has also reported that there are 61 fugitives out of at least 122 with extradition requests requested to the countries to which they fled.
It should be remembered that a total of 2.17 people were arrested while they violently broke into the Plaza de los Tres Poderes – headquarters of Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace of Brasilia – in the capital of the country, due to their discontent with the defeat at the polls of the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.
It was an unprecedented attack in the history of the South American country, which deepened its polarization and put the spotlight on the role of the military who always had a majority presence in the Government of the former Brazilian president.
That day, while a part of the country expressed its discontent over the return of Lula da Silva to the Executive, dozens of buses arrived in the capital for what initially seemed to be another demonstration against the new Government, in the context of protests that had begun two months before with vigils, prayers and camping in front of the Army barracks.