Aecio Pereira and Thiago Mathar were sentenced to 17 and 14 years in prison, respectively.
BRASILIA: In the first verdicts over riots by supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, the Supreme Court sentenced two defendants on Thursday to heavy jail terms on charges that include an attempted coup.
“This was no walk in the park. It was a Sunday of devastation, a day of infamy,” said Chief Justice Rosa Weber. In both cases, eight of the court’s 11 judges ruled to convict on all five charges the defendants faced – a violent uprising against the rule of law, attempted coup, armed criminal conspiracy, damaging a national heritage site, and aggravated property destruction.
In all, the Supreme Court plans to hear 232 cases involving the most serious alleged crimes committed during the riots. Investigators are meanwhile working to trace the financial backers behind the protests and establish whether police and army officers played a role. Seven Brasilia police commanders were arrested last month for dereliction of duty in connection with the riots.
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