The Brazilian Army is among those under investigation for the January 8 invasions in Brasilia
The Brazilian Chamber commission on the events of January 8 approved including the Army in the investigation after last week, a colonel of the Military Police of Brasilia offered information on the alleged participation of a general and a captain of the military forces.
During the four hours that Colonel Jorge Eduardo Naime, arrested in the framework of the operations for those events, gave his testimony, the name repeated most often was that of General Gustavo Dutra de Menezes, who would have prevented the Military Police agents from acting.
Naime said that soldiers and police officers even came to struggle amid the attacks.
At another point, Dutra contradicted the orders of the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Ricardo Cappelli, to arrest the people who had been camped in front of the Army headquarters for weeks.
The other name mentioned by Naime was that of Captain Romulo César de Albuquerque – currently assigned to President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva’s Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) – who prevented him from entering the camp from where the demonstrators were demanding Army intervention.
During his statement, Naime also revealed that the Army frustrated the camp’s dismantling on at least four occasions.
With information from LGI
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