Brazil: Congress members ask for the Minister of Justice’s arrest for acting on Jan. 8

Parliamentarians of the opposition filed, on Monday, 24, a request to arrest the Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Flávio Dino, at the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGR).

The criminal notice mentions the testimony given by General Gonçalves Dias, former minister of the Cabinet of Institutional Security (GSI).

In the hearing, Dias told the Federal Police (PF) that the acts of vandalism on January 8 could have been avoided if the government had followed the intelligence reports presented the day before.

“It is completely unfounded that the holder of the portfolio responsible for public safety at the national level does not receive important reports from the top intelligence agency,” says an excerpt from the document.

“It is configured, therefore, an omission in the management of the portfolio of Justice and Public Safety, the responsibility of the reported Minister Flávio Dino.”

According to Article 1 of the Penal Code, the deputies accuse Dino of improper omission and a crime of responsibility (Article 8 of Law No. 1.079/1950) for not informing the GSI about the risk of invasion in the Three Powers headquarters.

The parliamentarians are calling for an investigation into the case and for the minister to be removed.

They also call for Dino’s arrest by the Federal Supreme Court (STF), following the same procedure used against the former Public Security Secretary of the Federal District Anderson Torres.

Federal congressman Coronel Meira (PL-PE), who heads the list of parliamentarians calling for Dino’s arrest, said that “it is increasingly clear that, even in the face of information, the minister chose not to alert those responsible for the institutions that would be the target of vandalism, as General Gonçalves Dias told the Federal Police about the Planalto Palace.”

The parliamentarians claim that Dias committed a crime against the country’s internal security by not preventing the action of the vandals.

“Given all the facts now revealed, we ask that the representation be presented to the Supreme Court for the immediate arrest of Flávio Dino,” said Meira.

With information from Revista Oeste

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