The MPF (Federal Public Ministry) asked the STF (Supreme Federal Court) to open an investigation against the deputies Andre Fernandes (PL-CE), Clarissa Tercio (PP-PE) and Silvia Waiãpi (PL-AP) for incitement in the acts of January 8, in Brasilia. read the full from the statement released by the MPF (68 KB).
According to the text, the deputies made publications on their profiles on social networks before and during the invasions in the buildings of the Three Powers, which may configure public incitement to the practice of crime and an attempt to abolish the democratic rule of law.
The document mentions a video released by Congresswoman Clarissa Tércio, on her Instagram profile, on January 8, in which she says: “We just took power. We are inside Congress. All people are up here. This will go down in history, the history of my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren.”.
Also according to the MPF, on January 6, deputy André Fernandes said in his Twitter profile that the first act against the Lula government would take place over the weekend.. After the invasions and depredations, he published a photo of the door of Minister Alexandre de Moraes’ office vandalized by the invaders.
Deputy Silvia Waiãpi also published videos of acts in the buildings of the Three Powers on her Instagram profile. According to the MPF, the deputy would have said: “The people take the Esplanada dos Ministérios this Sunday! Seizure of power by the Brazilian people dissatisfied with the red government”.
For the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Carlos Frederico, who signs the petition, the speeches of the deputies would have incited people to extreme acts. “The normative structure of the crime of incitement to the crime of preventing or restricting the free exercise of the Three Powers of the Union, at the level of its typical objective assumptions, is completely fulfilled, and it is unnecessary to demonstrate a causal link between the content of the post and the situation dangerous that effectively led to the injury of the protected legal interest”he stated.
The penalty provided for incitement to commit a crime is 3 to 6 months of detention and a fine, while the penalty for the crime of trying to abolish the Democratic State of Law can reach 8 years of imprisonment.
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