Brazil's Attorney General's Office (PGR) has asked the Supreme Court (STF) to open an investigation into three deputies who support former President Jair Bolsonaro for inciting violence and invading the Palace of the Three Powers.
The petition signed by the PGR's deputy prosecutor, Carlos Frederico dos Santos, proposes investigating elected parliamentarians André Fernandes and indigenous military officer Silvia Waiãpi, both from the Liberal Party, and Clarissa Tércio, from the Progressive Party.
The document alleges that they used social networks before and after the raid to issue statements that could constitute "public incitement to crime".
For the Public Prosecutor's Office, the alleged actions of the congressmen were an "attempt to abolish, with violence or serious threat, the democratic rule of law, preventing or restricting the exercise of constitutional powers", reads the portal Toad.
Of the three MPs named, the first claims to have incited the acts of vandalism and the other two remain silent.
On Sunday (08), thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the headquarters of Congress, the Planalto presidential palace and the STF, in a failed attempt to overthrow the current President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In another act, the Public Prosecutor's Office also asked the STF to investigate the governor of the Federal District of Brasília, Ibaneis Rocha, who was removed from office for 90 days, and his then-security secretary Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro's former justice minister.
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